Hello, On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:53:46AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > So according to your rule that policy should standardize "common practice" > > and not mandate something completely new, the env variable proposal is in > > more widespread usage. > > For ten years, the "common practice" was that dpkg-buildpackage did not set > any variable.
It does set the dpkg-architecture related variables since 2001, so that's not true. > We cannot standardize on the "env variable proposal" because such proposal has > never be made. Instead dpkg-buildpackage was broken in Lenny, and should be > fixed ASAP. I can understand you were not happy with the way the change was done but saying dpkg-bp is broken is strong (and wrong). If you really believed that a major mistake was done at that time, you could have complained louder and you could have asked for a tech-ctte ruling. We also offered to retract the change to the release team but they did not deem it necessary. > Now we have packages that do not build correctly with > dpkg-buildpackage, others that do not build correctly with debian/rules > binary, > and all handle env var differently. Hence why I started this discussion, I'm not happy with the situation either. I also know that several maintainers object to adding a Makefile snippet so if we ever want to have a chance to standardize something in policy, we need to find a reasonable compromise like the one I tried to propose in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00920.html While I prefer the env var approach, I'm not opposed to the Makefile snippet approach, but I know that others are and I really want that we find some path out of this situation because the objectives behind all this are desirable. 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
