Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava schrieb:

>>  A) Provide a way to specify project wide defaults for env variables
>>  B) Allow a site admin to selectively override these, and provide site
>>     wide defaults
>>  C) Allow a package to set some flags that would otherwise break the
>>     package, overriding site and/or project defaults as needed
>>  D) Allow the user to specify and override any of the above.

> E) Provide a way to specify project wide defaults and override any of
> the above.  This is much needed to for rebuild checks ignoring package
> specific work arounds. Currently workarounds tend to live forever, and
> there is no way to automatically override those.

Wouldn't the user override work for you in this case?  If you're doing
archive-wide test builds overriding any package settings, that seems to me
to be exactly the same case as a user overriding all package settings to
force a particular set of build flags and you could do this with the same
mechanism.

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