Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:44:25 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > [...] > > > But lintian complains that it should be set to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS > > instead. > > > > But when I change it to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck (or "export > > DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck"), the tests are run. > > DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS is being ignored at build time. > > > > Is it dh and debhelper that the bug needs to be sent to? > > [...] > > The one you report seems to be a bug in debhelper. But I think the > usual pattern is to just add an override for the dh_auto_test command > instead? > > Thanks, > Guillem > >
Indeed, overriding dh_auto_test is probably what you are looking for. As for debhelper supporting DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS. It is possible, but are we sure it makes sense for packagers to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS for things like nocheck, nostrip, noautodbgsym, parallel=n, etc.? Thanks, ~Niels
