>> Well any flag not only optimization levels are affected but -OX is >> probably the most common case. > > Any flag that allow overriding a previous value of the same flag > and that maintainers are likely to change... wich doesn't make many. >
True, I was also thinking about the "silly" case when someone used DEB_*_MAINT_SET which I would guess break noopt and disable any user flag. >> Also some packages do >> export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_SET=$(dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) >> which makes the -02 and the other flags permanent. > > This is a pretty stupid thing to do. What package is doing this? > Is there a reason given? In any case, feel free to open a bug against > the affected packages. > Oh I was trying to search how many packages currently use DEB_*_MAINT_* options and found that one with a web search. I did not try an exhaustive search (should not be that many anyway) since it was 5am and this is more of a wishlist type of change since from the original email I gathered that this behavior was intentional by dpkg. The package that did this was http://packages.debian.org/sid/crash from what I remember. I will open the bug when I get home in a couple of hours if there is none. > But obviously if you put yourself not as a user who needs the resulting > package, but as a developer who is doing tests to see how many packages > break with a given flag, then this decision might annoy you. > True, I noticed this testing some packages with gcc-4.7 and custom flags with a custom pbuilder script. I was trying to remove the ugly gcc-wrapper that I used to insert/remove flags and try a cleaner approach and then found this. > We can invert the order between the maintainer environment variable and > the user environment variable but I'd like the input of others because > I can't really make up my mind on whether it's right and a realy useful > thing to do. > This sounds reasonable, thanks!. Cheers, Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
