Hi again, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>, 2012-05-01, 13:22:
>>I'm not convinced this is worth a dpkg-buildpackage option on its own. > > Well, I am. Good, now our positions are staked out. Hopefully it is possible to take care of all our needs without interfering with the others. I am concerned that this --build-twice option would clutter the documentation and make it harder for readers to understand the role dpkg-buildpackage is supposed to have (that is, it is a layering violation). Worse, it seems to be designed to work around a bug in tools that call dpkg-buildpackage --- instead of providing a convenient interface to run some other sequence of commands instead of "dpkg-buildpackage", if I understand correctly you are saying they only allow passing options to it. So if someone wants to test what happens when building a package three times in a row, say, (or when building for a second, killing the build, cleaning up, and then finishing the build) there would need to be yet another commandline option. >> Possible alternative methods: >> >> a) teaching sbuild and $VCS-buildpackage an option to use another command >> instead of dpkg-buildpackage, or >> >> b) (as a hack, if (a) is too fussy) overriding dpkg-buildpackage with a >> wrapper that appears earlier on the $PATH. > > I'm not interested in patching multiple builders or dirtying my build > environment. In case (a), wouldn't you only need to patch one builder (namely the one you use), and wouldn't case (b) be possible without dirtying your build environment if another package (or a pbuilder hook, or whatever) provided the dpkg-buildpackage wrapper? I can imagine there being other reasons to want to implement this in dpkg (are there some?), but without such a reason I am concerned that this is expanding the scope of dpkg-buildpackage --- instead of supporting the general case with sufficient generality, supporting special cases. Hoping that clarifies, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
