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

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

2011-06-01 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05/29/2011 09:10 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Sun, 29 May 2011, 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

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

2011-05-29 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: dpkg-dev 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 to do this currently is to edit the config files for a test rebuild. The

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

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Matthias, 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 to do this currently is to edit the config files for a

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

2011-05-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 29 May 2011, 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 to do this

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

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Do you often need to verify if a package supports dpkg-buildflags? In what context? I can think of some: - wanting to be sure that setting hardening flags on these packages through the dpkg-buildflags mechanism will actually work; - guaging whether the mechanism