On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:23:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > For ten years, the "common practice" was that dpkg-buildpackage did not set > any variable. > > We cannot standardize on the "env variable proposal" because such proposal has > never be made. Instead dpkg-buildpackage was broken in Lenny, and should be > fixed ASAP. Now we have packages that do not build correctly with > dpkg-buildpackage, others that do not build correctly with debian/rules > binary, > and all handle env var differently.
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