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

2009-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:01:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If they're built by the program, then anyone who wants to properly build >> the software, even if they don't want to go all the way to the package, >> will need to use the program, since p

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

2009-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:30:43PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, >> > this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds >> > of interfaces we've mandated in Po