Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
In the discussions of bug #209008 (parallel building), Peter Samuelson
explained he uses comma-separated keywords in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
Please document how keywords in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS are allowed to be
separated.
I find the recommendation of the Make function "findstring" a poor
one as it will match subwords and will make it harder to introduce new
keywords (as we will have to ensure the new keywords aren't matched in
current rules).
I would personally push for allowing only space separated keywords as
this makes parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS really easy, especially in
make. Peter Samuelson uses commas because it's doesn't impose quoting
when spawning a build from a shell command-line.
Bye,
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Loïc Minier
