On Monday 11 May 2009 09:49:31 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Well, debuild calls dpkg-buildpackage most of the time, unless you give a > > specific target (which would again possibly be of interest to those who > > are interested in calling debian/rules by hand for some reason). And that > > is also something newish. > > Any pointer to this feature?
Um, didn't you yourself orginally report this? (bug #476100) Anyway, the current man pages of debuild says this: """ An alternative way of using debuild is to use one or more of the parameters binary, binary-arch, binary-indep and clean, in which case debuild will attempt to gain root privileges and then run debian/rules with the given parameters. """ > > So again some of this would become clearer if the actually supported > > build methods are more clearly spelled out. And then if someone could > > fold all of the functionality of debuild into dpkg-buildpackage, there > > would be even less distraction and variation. > > It's planned, see #476221. That sounds like the ticket. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
