Bug#628516: [buildd-tools-devel] dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:36:44PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: There is more than a handful of packages which do not care about dpkg-buildflags yet in debian/rules. Currently it's difficult to tell if a package build honors dpkg-buildflags or not. The only way

Bug#629582: dpkg-dev: Add local-patch-header?

2011-06-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: wishlist Most of my packages are maintained in Git, with the separate changes, if broken out at all, broken out in separate branches with their own history. Since the tools like TopGit for generating a patch series from that setup are all rather

Bug#628516: dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-06-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Roger Leigh wrote: There's no reason why we can't add such a feature to sbuild. We could add a build environment hash to allow specific environment variables to be set when running dpkg-buildpackage (if this is what you're asking for?). That also sounds very interesting. I actually meant