On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > > * either we modify policy to mandate the set of environment variables that > > dpkg-buildpackage sets > > [...] > > In terms of efforts, the first solution is the easiest. But we aim at the > > _right_ solution so feel free to design something that makes the second > > solution viable. > > I'm more than slightly uncomfortable with mandating a particular tool as > the only way to build packages (and mandating something that's different > than current policy at that).
Note that I'm not asking to mandate the tool. I would like to mandate the fact that packages can rely on some environment variables being set to some values. > I'd be much happier with a Makefile snippet and a conversion period. I > know it's more work and slower to migrate to, but it seems to me to have > the advantage of being the most flexible. Care to elaborate what kind of flexibility you need in this specific case ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
