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Re: Bug#486937: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS must be whitespace-separated



Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.14.20
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> 
> Policy 3.8.0.1, section 4.9.1, on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS:
> 
>     If multiple flags are given, they must be separated by whitespace.
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage uses "," separators instead, which breaks any rules
> file that follows the example code in Policy.
>
> Presumably this bug is not RC for lenny, as the relevant Policy text is
> new to 3.8.0.

This is already fixed in the master branch which contains the version
1.15.0 intended for lenny+1.
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=9866c4bafdf147ad764f31e2747f5c1012802b1d

Should that fix be backported into the lenny branch? What do release
managers think of this?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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