Hi,
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:42 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> while investigating #476054 I discovered that debuild is really a fork of
> dpkg-buildpackage and no more a simple wrapper of it. (BTW the manual
> page is wrong... it says "It first runs dpkg-buildpackage" which is not
> the case unless you have dpkg-cross installed... BTW dpkg-cross does no
> more divert dpkg-buildpackage in its latest versions).
> [...]
> Anyway, in general, I'd like the devscripts developers to think twice
> at what is appropriate for devscripts and what is appropriate for
> dpkg-dev. Feel free to redirect some of your wishlist bugs on dpkg-dev or
> at least seek our opinion if you're not sure of the right place for a
> given feature.
>From a quick look through the changelog, it appears the change was made
a couple of years ago to add the "hook" functionality:
devscripts (2.9.17) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* debuild: emulate dpkg-buildpackage rather than call it (unless
dpkg-cross is installed); this provides a hook facility (Closes:
#226947)
[...]
-- Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:43:15 +0100
I'm not really familiar enough with either script to be sure if there
are any other bits of functionality that debuild implements that dpkg-bp
doesn't (yes, I added -j to debuild, but that was largely copy-n-paste).
Regards,
Adam
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