Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Mar 13 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] > > Hello, > > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage > and the policy do not match fully. > > I tried to summarize the problem here: > http://wiki.deb

Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] Hello, we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage and the policy do not match fully. I tried to summarize the problem here: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebianRules I want to resolve this probl

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:48:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Oh, I think the existing language is perfectly unambiguous, I'm just saying > that the behavior described doesn't seem to be what most/many maintainers > want in practice, with the re

Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, >> using these files is more or less like living in the last >> century. People are able to get the current source from the Debian pool, >> if that is not enough for them, they s

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are >>> new upstream versions of something I have. >> What happens if your watch file breaks? Do you check upstream announcem

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:49:19PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, using > these files is more or less like living in the last century. People are able > to > get the current source from the Debian pool, if that is not enough for