Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> Those who use debheler in their packaging could take advantae of it.
>> dpkg-source is not run in isolation when doing packaging work. Turning
>> on DH_VERBOSE would be a unified way for debhelper users.
>>
>> The change does not affect interfere other packaging systems.
>
> It just doesn't fit the design of dpkg-source, so no. You could add a
> --verbose option to dpkg-source but I don't agree to reuse DH_VERBOSE for
> that purpose.
It would be good if tools were playing a little bit in the same
orchestra and not only solos. Especially when debhelper is a big part of
the Debian.
I'm wondering how would that --verbose option fit on debhelper packages
built with:
$ debuild ...
>> To "grab" output is not efficient. A full information is always welcomed
>> in debugging situations; without as little manual work as possible.
>
> You didn't understand. My suggestion does not involve any manual work. It
> involves code changes to run patch in non-quiet mode by default and to
> redirect its output in a pipe that dpkg-source stores in memory. The
> output read by dpkg-source is only displayed if dpkg-source fails to apply
> the patch. That way you have the full output in case of errors and nothing
> otherwise (avoiding clutter).
Indeed that would be even better. Would you have and estimate when that
feature would appear?
Jari
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