On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 23:07:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think > > >it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ? > > > > I'm uncomfortable with the idea of (even more?) build-time package > > settings being hidden away outside of debian/control. :-/ > > On the flip side, it means less possibilities of mistakes for debhelper > users, a simpler learning curve to newbies who don't have to know about > substvars right from the start, etc. > > But I can understand your feeling and we will probably need options to > disable this behaviour in some cases. > I'm at least as uncomfortable with new options as I am with new magic. dpkg-source has way too many options already.
Cheers, Julien
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