Package: debhelper
Version: 8.1.2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dh
Hi,
I just stumbled on the same issue.
So what is the status of this now for debhelper? Will you add code in
dh to automatically initialize the variables with dpkg-buildflags if
they are unset?
I don't believe this needs a new compat level. If dpkg-buildpackage is
used those variables are still set so nothing will change there (which
preserves the behaviour on all buildds and for most users). Further
any package that sets the variables in their debian/rules will also
behave the same way. Only packages that do not set the variables in
debian/rules will suddenly behave the same wether called by
dpkg-buildpackage or debian/rules directly. So any package that breaks
by dh setting the variables would also already be broken when
dpkg-buildpackage is used. I would be that that number is 0.
And once dh sets the variables we could try not setting them in
dpkg-buildpackage and see what "breaks" without having all the dh using
package "break" (which we already know they would).
MfG
Goswin
PS: Should someone help and provide patches for debhelper to do this?
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APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (666, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-debian-xen-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
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ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.7-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base 5.10.1-14 minimal Perl system
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.55 tool that converts source archives
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