> I think he ment that you can not know wether the setting comes from > dpkg-buildpackage or the user. If it comes from dpkg-buildpackage then > debian/rules should be free to override it as needed. If it comes from > the user then that is another story. At least that is my take on it.
This is a great point. It must be possible to craft a rules file that overrides system or distribution wide defaults and which can be over-ridden by an individual building the package. That seems to require the ability for the code in a rules file to distinguish between things in the environment because they're defaults and things in the environment that are attempting to override defaults. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
