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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

