On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 12:07:19PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.7.0 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/debuild > > Recently on debian-mentors a discussion[1] took place about the > default options to 'debuild'. There at least one developer stated[2] > that they always override the default signing with debuild -uc -us in > their personal override files and then debsign later after testing. I > also always override, but on the command line, and proposed[3] > changing the default options. It was suggested[4] that I file a > wishlist bug. Here it is. > > Would it be possible to change the default options to debuild so that > the options -uc -us are the default? And change the documentation to > suggest using debsign after debuild so that the developer is directed > along the path of build, test, sign? This would make the simple > command 'debuild' the simple case and the default for most developers. > I believe it simplifies the process.
Hmm. Interesting idea. My problems with this are: (1) It will change the default behaviour of the program, and I'm not entirely happy with doing this. Maybe ask on -devel and see whether there's a broad agreement on this point? (2) It will make it's default behaviour different from that of dpkg-buildpackage, which it is essentially emulating with a few bells and whistles. (3) It is easy to modify /etc/devscripts.conf or ~/.devscripts to do this. On the positive side, it might encourage people to test their packages before releasing them, or it might just encourage them to add --sign (or whatever the signing command-line option would become) to their config file, gaining very little. I'm not sure which way to go on this one. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, website: http://www.polya.uklinux.net/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry