On Mon, Sep 28 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > >> in my first experimentations I used DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, but this leads >> to the possibility of clashing with flag names that can be reserved >> later with a different behaviour. On the other hand, if there are >> enough packages made using the same convention, then we may set the >> standard by our usage. Would there be other maintainers interested in >> using a 'network' flag for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS? > > Just use something like DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=x-check-network until there > is an option for this enshrined in policy.
Creating a working example, which is used in a number of packages (enough packages that most of the kinks in implementation of the handling have been worked out) would be a great first step towards getting it into policy anyway. manoj -- I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave until I get my raincoat back.- a slogan of the anarchists in Richard Kadrey's "Metrophage" Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org