On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:33:31AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > It would be nice to know what would break if dpkg-dev stopped > > exporting CFLAGS. Is there someone out there with hardware capable of > > quickly rebuilding some representative subset of the archive to > > determine that? > > Lucas Nussbaum has access to Grid5000 and regularly does full rebuilds. > Feel free to cooperate with him to gather any useful information. > > But be aware that not all failures are catched at build time.
This also all true for the current situation. The bugs caused by exporting CFLAGS that are not yet fixed are certainly in greater number than the bugs that would be added by removing CFLAGS, even without considering that packages that depend on CFLAGS being set are not policy-compliant anyway. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
