Hi! On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 18:39:14 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > It would be nice, however, to have a way to specify the alternate behavior > > in > > a consistent reliable way (meaning something I can put in the package when I > > add source/format). > > Archive consistency is far more important than individual maintainer > preference about this behavior. People that work on lots of different > packages deserve dpkg-source to act consistently across the entire > archive.
Exactly. I don't have any intention to change the current dpkg-source default behavior in that regard. > This would be far better solved with a system conffile of some sort > like /etc/dpkg/dpkg-source.cfg, which admittedly doesn't exist yet. But sure, that (and its $HOME counterpart) is a good idea and is something I'll be adding (possibly for 1.17.12) when also adding config file support for dpkg-buildpackage. Coincidentally I've actually been looking very recently into cleaning up the command-line parsing code in dpkg-source to make, for example, --help output all format specific options, which I'll have to fix anyway to not output pestering warnings when using format specific options from a config file on the “wrong” source format. Arguably the problem exists already today, if one wants to use the same options w/o knowing what source format is being unpacked. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140716010817.ga13...@gaara.hadrons.org
