Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> The advantage of the snippet approach is where packages might
> break if the builtin defaults are changed will not be broken by the
> snippet approach, since the change is opt-in.
Once a package relies on values provided by a Makefile snippet, it might
also break when the values provided by the snippet change. Otherwise we
lose the advantage of facilitating distribution-wide changes of default
build options.
I don't see how you reconcile everything.
Cheers,
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