Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 15:01:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.15.4 >> Severity: wishlist >> File: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb >> >> Please support an environment variable like 'DPKG_BUILD_COMPRESSION_TYPE' >> to set default value for -Z option. > > What's the situation you'd use it instead of the command line option? > Hi, in the situations when I don't call dpkg-deb directly. My situation: I have a program that calls dpkg-repack which calls 'dpkg --build'. If I want to allow user to change the compression format of .debs on the final output, I should implement an option to my program, then convince dpkg-repack to have that option... Having an environment variable would work much easier.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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