On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > This doesn't stike me as a goods change to have made if you want to get > the current version of dpkg into testing for the release.
And what do you want us to do? Revert the change? See the discussion at http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/03/msg00324.html And quoting you in the bug report: > I guess that this is one of those dpkg-dev changes that won't break > "anything". :-/" I wonder why you feel the need to do such remarks... we were aware of the consequences, ~100 packages FTBFS with the initial changes, we reverted the LDFLAGS change which reduced the number of failures by a few but we were definitely aware that it would lead to a signigicant number of new FTFBS. It's a tradeoff between new features (being able to pass arbitrary compilation flags and simplification of many debian/rules because CFLAGS will be set to the proper value by default) and new bugs for packages which do not cope with those variables in the environment. Anyway, if the release team wants to change his mind, we can still revert the change for lenny. But it's starting to get boring to be accused of not being careful or similar other stuff. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
