On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:19:27AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Bug#586691: dpkg-buildpackage and LDFLAGS etc."):
> > forcemerge 560070 586691
> > thanks
> ...
> > We have dpkg-buildflags nowadays for this.
>
> Thanks. I have just read #560070. Can I request that #560070 be
> fixed in a stable release update ?
I do not think it is possible because some debian/rules files were changed to
rely on the
new behaviour. lenny might not build correclty without that bug.
> > 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.
>
> I'm sorry, but I disagree with this approach. It is not right to do a
> continue doing a broken thing (one which can actually break package
> builds) "for compatibility" !
I agree. This should be fixed before the archive test rebuild for squeeze are
performed.
When that bug is fixed, we can start experimenting with dpkg-buildflags, but
not before.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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