On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 22:07:42 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 10.08.2014 um 21:59 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 21:13:10 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Package: dpkg-dev > >> Version: 1.17.11 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> $ dpkg-buildpackage -b -B > >> dpkg-buildpackage: cannot combine -b and -B > >> > >> Use --help for program usage information. > >> > >> is there a reason to reject this? > > > > Yes. The behaviour of the various build type selection was not really > > consistent, you could not combine source build options with binary build > > ones and for binary builds it would accept several of them, but not > > really combine them, the last option would win. It would be even more > > confusing with the new -g and -G options. > > > > Were you expecting those options to have a combined effect? Or for the > > last to win? > > my interpretation of > > -b is not to build architecture dependent packages (and not to > re-create the dsc file). > > > - B is to do the above and not to build architecture > dependent packages
I guess there's a typo there somewhere, otherwise it'd mean you interpret both to do exactly the same. In any case this does not quite answer the questions I posted above. :) Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
