Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
immanuel litzroth writes: > Once again... this is biting us too so we usually add the AM_MAINTAINER > mode ourselves. This scenario is 100% recognizable and a major source of > problems for us. I also religiously use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE for all of my packages because I always want to be able to t

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-08 Thread immanuel litzroth
Once again... this is biting us too so we usually add the AM_MAINTAINER mode ourselves. This scenario is 100% recognizable and a major source of problems for us. Immanuel On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 07/02/2013 19:47, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > So you want to

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-08 Thread immanuel litzroth
We have had a lot of problems with this in our company, where I have to keep explaining the issues involved. So strong agreement here. Immanuel On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 07/02/2013 16:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > (Side note: using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE these

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-08 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 08/02/2013 13:26, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > But maintainer-mode won't help you here; it will just cause make to ignore > some remake rules that require maintainer tools, so you are *more* likely > to end up with a subtly and silently broken package (or at least one that > is in an inconsistent

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/08/2013 12:37 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 07/02/2013 19:47, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> So you want to allow users to disable maintainer-mode rules in every >> package? > > Yes. Where users here is "distribution packagers". > >> Better risk an extra rebuild than to miss a required one