Hi Thomas,
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:03:59PM +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> I'm not sure about the env var because it means that packages which wants a 
> reduced list of ignored files (a list which don't ignore VCS files other than 
> those used by git) can't easily use local-options as they would have to 
> override the ignored file to ignore only local-options and git files.
> 
> What would be nice is a way to remove some ignored files from the default 
> list 
> of ignored files managed by dpkg. The problem of this approach is that any 
> new 
> VCS file ignore should in dpkg would need a new upload of 
> git-buildpackage/git-
> pbuilder. The delay between the new file ignore and the new upload could be 
> handled by allowing a user option or env variable specifying files to *not* 
> ignore.
> 
> If I sum up, what I'd like to see is a default set of files to *not* ignore 
> hard-coded in git-pbuilder and a way to add more files to not ignore for the 
> user (or maybe just a way to override this default set of files with a user-
> supplied one).
So why not get the debbuildopts from another env-var. The default could
be 

DEBBUILDOPTS="-i -I"

while setting it to:

DEBBUILDOPTS=none

turns of DEBBUILDOPTS entirely.

Russ, any opinion on this one?
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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