On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 16:18:32 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to propose two release goals for Jessie (and probably > Jessie + 1). > > First, I would like to propose a release goal which will aim to make > sure that the CC and CXX variables are honored. > Currently, last time I tried, around 40 % of the packages will not take > in account such declaration [1]. > CC=/usr/bin/randomcompiler CXX=/usr/bin/randomcompiler++ dpkg-buildpackage > I for one don't think package builds should obey random environment variables, so I wouldn't consider a failure of the above command a bug, let alone an important one. And 40% of failures means this isn't even close to achievable as a release goal, even if there was consensus around the idea.
What would that buy you over changing /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ anyway? Cheers, Julien
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