On Oct 29, 2013 12:30 PM, "Ximin Luo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thinking about this some more, I'm leaning towards the opinion that this is more correctly devscripts problem. dpkg-buildpackage is quite a low-level tool
I would disagree with that. dpkg-buildpackage is the standard tool to perform package builds. debuild is an intentionally thin wrapper around it, and we are trying to push for more of the functionality to live in dpkg-buildpackage (c.f., #476221). > However, (and correct me if I'm wrong), but debuild is a user-facing tool, so you do not have that excuse. There is no need for debuild to "behave similar to dpkg-buildpackage -T $target". Sure there is. dpkg-buildpackage's behavior is the interface that people should expect when running builds. This doesn't mean that debuild can't add functionality (like the log file and hook points) but the functionality should be enhancing, not replacing, dpkg-buildpackage's behavior. For another discussion of the behavior you're questioning, see #649531. Cheers, -- James
