On Sun, 2018-11-25 at 21:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 07:21:17PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > ... > > In general, I realise that not every makefile might implement > > VERBOSE/V, but I think it's the most common pattern, so I think > > it's > > the best chance we have to support it automagically via debhelper. > > If > > some package uses a different set of variables for verbosity (or > > none > > at all), then they'll have to use overrides, but they'd be no worse > > than now - of course unless there are more breakages, in which case > > we > > can revert/use a compat level. Does this sound like a plan? > > ... > > The problem is not about finding the correct variable for verbosity. > > The problem is that Makefiles are allowed to use variables like V or > VERBOSE for whatever purpose they want, and with whatever values > they > want. > > It is not even clear that all breakages are FTBFS, > we might end up with misbuilt packages due to that.
True, I didn't think of other more subtle failures. I've updated the MR to revert the change. It's a pity, but I guess the lesser evil is to live with having to add more boilerplate to d/rules. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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