Bug#229357: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think we're already on that path for quite some time. If your package > > uses DEB_(BUILD|HOST)_* variables, you rely on dpkg-buildpackage setting > > them for you (with dpkg-archite

Bug#498355: Preparing Lenny for proper VENDOR handling

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> That change has already sort of been requested by dpkg-buildpackage >> suddenly setting variables without changing policy to make >> dpkg-buildpackage use required. Will you make the request to change

Bug#498355: Preparing Lenny for proper VENDOR handling

2008-09-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > That change has already sort of been requested by dpkg-buildpackage > suddenly setting variables without changing policy to make > dpkg-buildpackage use required. Will you make the request to change > policy? Which section needs to be updated acco

Bug#498380: RFC: Implementing dpkg-vendor and adding vendor handling to dpkg-dev

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> +# dpkg-vendor >> +# >> +# Copyright ?? 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> +# Copyright ?? 1999 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Is it really? Cut&paste error. >> +get_vendor() { >> +if ! [ -z

Bug#477916: dpkg-dev: please allow using different targets

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, for policy defined targets the policy defines when root is required and when not. For those dpkg-buildpackage should not need the --with/out)-rootcmd option. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#498355: Preparing Lenny for proper VENDOR handling

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Currently the environment will only be setup if dpkg-buildpackage is >> called but not if debian/rules is invoked directly. The goal of the >> makefile fragment is to consistently set up the environme

Bug#498355: Preparing Lenny for proper VENDOR handling

2008-09-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Currently the environment will only be setup if dpkg-buildpackage is > called but not if debian/rules is invoked directly. The goal of the > makefile fragment is to consistently set up the environment with some > default variables no matter how deb