On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:55:25PM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > What about autobuilders, or anyone who might have to do a non-maintainer > > upload of the package at some point in the future? > > Autobuilders will have a package that is tailored to their system > (optimised, hence running faster).
No, no, no. The autobuilders that produce Debian packages for other packages *must* be able to automatically produce packages that work on plain-vanilla systems of their architecture. > Somebody that does a non-maintainer build (not me), will have to check > and modify the debian/rules script. That means that non-maintainers are quite likely to get it wrong, since most packages don't require this kind of customization just to build a standard version for upload. > As I see it, this is the best solution: if you _do_ an apt-get source, > you _do_ want it customised for your system. Usually, when I do this, I'm trying to debug a problem and therefore don't want my changes to affect the package in unexpected ways ... people who are trying to build optimized packages will already be using things like pentium-builder. Perhaps DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=optimize (or optimise, depending on your spelling religion)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
