On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 16:44 +0000, Niels Thykier 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? > > > > > 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.?
I don't get it. What is the point of DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS (and the lintian warning about DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) if no tool is actually using it? Drew
