On Mon, May 04 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I'll try to summarize the discussion (althought it might be biased to
> my preferred option) and some facts, so that we can get to a conclusion:
+1
I agree with almost everything said in this email.
manoj
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On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 07:35 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage
> > and the policy do not match fully.
...
> So I think for next dpkg upload we should make dpkg-
Guillem Jover wrote:
> [ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ]
> * Lots of packages (roughly around 4k) do not honour env vars for build
> flags, as they follow the examples from policy (or dh-make and similar)
> and thus are setting them unconditionally, which env vars do not
>
On Mon, 04 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> env var should not be set either, and we should work on getting a
> dpkg-vendor instead, before people try to start using the variable.
FYI, I already started this.
> start fixing packages to include that makefile. The files could look
> something like:
On Mon, May 04 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> ,-- debian/rules
>> -include /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk
>>
>> # package overrides
>> FOO := pkg
>> `--
>
> Probably without the leading "-", otherwise we have a risk to not have
> any sane default at
Holger Levsen writes:
> it seems we missed on legacy advice in the fix #206684:
>
> See
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscripts
> and there the last but one paragraph of 3.9.1, which #206684 does not
> suggest to change:
>
> --quote-
> If a package has a vital
Hi Russ,
On Montag, 4. Mai 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> How about:
> it should display this in the config or postinst script and prompt
> the user for acknowledgement. See .
Great!
> We don't require that the program use debconf, only that it use
> something that complies with the Debian
On Monday 04 May 2009 08:35:18 Guillem Jover wrote:
I like this proposal. A small nit:
> ,-- /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk
> # distro defaults
> FOO := distro
Please be sure to use
FOO = bar
instead of ":=", unless you have determined that you really wanted ":=". In
most cases it won't m
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