Bug#578597: Recommend usage of dpkg-buildflags to initialize CFLAGS and al.

2010-04-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:46:50AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> Package: debian-policy > >> Severity: wishlist > >> > >> The desired outcome is that all package grab the values directly fro

Bug#578597: Recommend usage of dpkg-buildflags to initialize CFLAGS and al.

2010-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Given that it will probably be a while before this tool is used >> universally, what benefit does an existing package with code like the >> above get from switching to using dpkg-buildflags? > > It will allow users of source p