Re: oh for lintian.ubuntu.com [Was: Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper]

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:01:31AM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> >oh for lintian.ubuntu.com ... >> >> This is something I've also wished for. Is there any historical reason >>

Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper

2011-11-01 Thread Felix Geyer
On 01.11.2011 13:25, Colin Watson wrote: > If my grep is correct (oh for lintian.ubuntu.com ...) there are 119 > packages using debhelper compat level 9 in precise right now. I've > examined all of these, and have so far refined that list to 16 packages > that look as though their behaviour may be

Re: oh for lintian.ubuntu.com [Was: Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper]

2011-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:01:31AM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >oh for lintian.ubuntu.com ... > > This is something I've also wished for. Is there any historical reason > why this doesn't exist beyond no one making it happen yet?

oh for lintian.ubuntu.com [Was: Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper]

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >oh for lintian.ubuntu.com ... This is something I've also wished for. Is there any historical reason why this doesn't exist beyond no one making it happen yet? Russ Allbery says "the web generation framework isn't really "productionalized" in

Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper

2011-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > What I think we settled on as the least bad option is to refine the > dpkg-buildpackage workaround so that it does not export environment > variables if the package it's building is using debhelper compat level 9 > or above, and to manually review all such

dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper

2011-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
We have a nasty little problem in precise, and unfortunately it's mainly of our own making. I've been discussing this with a few people at UDS (mainly Steve Langasek, Adam Conrad, and Matthias Klose), but I want to have something on the record, in part so I don't forget the details. Historically