Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:35:18AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: * We can set the architecture and default flags (from policy) on the makefile to be included, and packagers will be able to do the change and fix any possible problems (progressive opt-in), but once it's included by all

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, May 10, 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds of interfaces we've mandated in Policy in the past (i.e., environment variables, executables and command-line

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds of interfaces we've mandated in Policy in the past (i.e., environment variables, executables and command-line

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:54:11PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds of interfaces we've mandated in Policy in the

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include' functionality, but that's basically what we have here. Guillem pointed out one problem: Either you do it via a make

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include' functionality, but that's basically what we have

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 23:37 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include' functionality, but that's basically what we have here.

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include'

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:54:11PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 10 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:35:18AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: * We can set the architecture and default flags (from policy) on the makefile to be included, and packagers will be able to do the change and fix any possible problems (progressive

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 10 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds of interfaces we've mandated in Policy in the past (i.e.,

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 10 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include'