Hi, On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > On the other hand, if you are saying that packagers should not wait > for any official pronouncement to implement whatever > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=verbose/quiet option they please, then I would agree > with you. xz-utils has supported DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=quiet for a while > now. However, I thought Matthias was looking for something more > consistent between packages, like making sure that logs are verbose > when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is unset (or making sure that logs are verbose > when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=verbose, whatever. Either way.)
For reference dpkg supports "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=maintainer-build" that enables the silent rules and I have an alias "dpkgbuild" that avoids me to have to type this every time. Maybe a discussion on -devel would be helpful to try to standardize on a name. I also think that it would be more convenient to have the buildd set the verbose mode and others to have the silent rules by default but I don't think this is going to take traction. We have quite a few bugreports from users doing rebuilds and it's best to get verbose build logs in those cases. That's why I suggest to aim directly for the opposite: verbose by default and silent with a switch that maintainers can add. Ideally though debuild would get support for this option and could be taught to set it via some ~/.devscripts setting. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-rh/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org