On Mon, 2020-03-15 at 19:26:14 +0000, Nicholas Brown wrote: > I could imagine the patch below, which I started looking at some time ago > but never > got around to coming back to, could form a start at implementing this.
This is pretty close to what I initially did, and mentioned on my first reply to the bug. <https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?h=pu/dpkg-buildpackage-build-outputdir> > It was just the obvious paths within the script itself, but the various > calls to dpkg-source, > dpkg-genbuildinfo, dpkg-genchanges, that all accept output options, still > need to be > modified to pass this new argument. The actual problem are none of these, but the dpkg-deb calls performed from within debian/rules, directly or indirectly via debhelper. Where even if debhelper would handle this as Philipp Hahn suggested, dpkg could not rely on that as this is a package-specific implementation detail. Until and iff dpkg-buildpackage starts handling the dpkg-deb calls by itself, this bug cannot be solved. I didn't feel like marking as wontfix because I think the request make sense, it's just that I don't see how to implement it as things stand right now. Thanks, Guillem
