On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > In the non-snippet method proposed, there is no way for the > package maintainer to override project defaults yet cater user set > variable settings, since the information is lost.
You're not trying very hard to look from both sides: whether the default value comes from the environment or from an included Makefile, in both cases the user can override it with command-line arguments. Granted it means that dpkg-buildpackage would have to pass user-overriden flags on the command line instead of using the environment, but that can be done if people really want this possibility. So the policy would mandate a set of variables that could be communicated either via the environment or via the command-line depending on how authoritative the user wants to be. That would be fine for me too. 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
