tags 352626 + wontfix thanks On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:42:37AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.9.12 > Severity: wishlist > > While preparing for the current release of Debian Installer, I was > uploaded some packages built using debuild that included .svn files by > accident, even though I had "DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS:.svn" set in my > environment. > > Reason turned out to be that debuild clears all envvars, excepting a few, > by default. > Adding "DEBUILD_PRESERVE_ENVVARS=DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE" in ~/.devscripts > solved the issue. > > Please consider adding the following 2 debhelper envvars to the list of > vars not to be reset: > - DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE > - DH_VERBOSE > > Rationale: if these are set in the environment, the user will logically > expect them to be honored and the chance that they will break a build is > very low; the current practice of unsetting them is counter-intuitive. > > An option would be to print the value of the vars in the build output to > alert the the user to their value.
DH_VERBOSE I could agree with, but DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE is nasty: autobuilding could fail if DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE is set in the environment but not in the Makefile, as the tarball is generated *before* anything is deleted, so that environment variable will actually change the nature of the binary package generated. In fact, I would say that building a package from inside an SVN tree is fraught with danger; use svn-buildpackage or cvs-buildpackage instead. I'm not going to implement this request. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
