Bug#628515: recommending verbose build logs
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> Most packages will only provide verbose log, so it is rather terse logs
> that are optionnal. So maybe the option should be
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse.
I agree with this. Most packages are already doing the right thing, and I
think terse logs should be the non-default option.
What should we do about cases where the upstream build system makes it
difficult to override the verbosity? In other words, is this a place
where we should push Debian package maintainers to actually fix the
upstream build system to make build logs verbose even if upstream doesn't
support that as an option? I'm thinking, for example, of some of djb's
public domain software, where the compiler invocation is stored in a shell
script and therefore doesn't appear usefully in the build output. Or
should Policy just be saying that packagers should enable the verbose
option by default if there is one?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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