On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > > Care to elaborate what kind of flexibility you need in this specific case ? > > I don't. I'm imagining that some of our downstreams may.
It's precisely one of our downstreams that pushed the dpkg-buildpackage change (Ubuntu). I don't think most downstreams care a lot about the exact implementation, but they clearly want a way to alter defauld build flags at the distribution level. This all started with: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org