Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 17:19:00 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
[...]
>> 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.
> 
> Easier sure, but I don't think that's the right solution in this
> particular case. Adding -z and -Z pass-through support in dpkg-repack
> would be worthwhile by itself.
> 
Maybe, but implementing this for upper-stack programs is not worthwhile as for
me. I would still want to have an environment variable.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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