> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the request, but this is inside-out, > dpkg-buildpackage always calls debian/rules (and never the other way > around) so whatever is set from within that file will not be visible > to the outter process. dpkg-buildpckage does not (and cannot) really > care what you do with either of the variables in debian/rules. :) > > Barring some misunderstanding from my part, I'm planning on closing > this report in a bit.
The problem is this: in debian/rules I have DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck, which is used (I don't know by what exactly) to prevent the build system from automatically running test. But lintian complains that it should be set to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS instead. But when I change it to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck (or "export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck"), the tests are run. DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS is being ignored at build time. Is it dh and debhelper that the bug needs to be sent to?
