[ sent again, with 7bit headers to please Debian MTAs ] Quoting gregor herrmann (2020-05-23 13:46:10) > On Sat, 23 May 2020 12:47:30 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > With debhelper 13 there are some nice improvements, so it makes sense > > > > to use it IMO. > > > Okay, I'll stick to it at least on Perl side. Thanks! > > I had not seen a strong reason to bump routine-update to debhelper 13 > > but it would be pretty easy to do. Gregor what kind of improvements > > do you consider so nice? > > My 2 favourites from the manpage: > > - The dh_auto_* helpers now resets the environment variables HOME and > common XDG_* variable. HOME and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are each set to a > distinct writable directory. The rest of the environment variables > are cleared. > - The dh command sequencer will now skip all hook and override > targets for dh_auto_test, dh_dwz and dh_strip when > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS lists the relevant nocheck / nostrip options. > > The first allows removing dances with $HOME for packages with > testsuites that need a home directory; the latter saves > ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > … > endif > in an override_dh_auto_test which does more than dh_auto_test (and > mkdir etc.), it's now completely skipped.
Whoops, I thought the 2nd of those were introduced in v12. Then I am in favor of v13 too (and should fix a bunch of packages now broken). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
signature.asc
Description: signature
