forcemerge 560070 586691
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
> However, there is no way to get a complete list of these flags
> variables, future versions of dpkg-dev may set more of them, and all
> of this is not at all under the control of the package maintainer.

We have dpkg-buildflags nowadays for this.

> I don't think that packages' debian/rules files are required by policy
> to work properly if LDFLAGS etc. are set in the environment.  I think
> dpkg-buildpackage should set _only_ DEBIAN_*FLAGS and expect
> debian/rules to honour them.

We're migrating to a situation where packages are supposed to use
dpkg-buildflags to set the flags themselves rather than having them
set by dpkg-buildpackage but until it's more widespread we keep them
in the environment.

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