On Wed, Mar 18, 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Of course an Ubuntu derivative could be surprised if they get > a Debian-variant of a package instead of an Ubuntu-variant…
Yes, that's exactly the issue I'm raising > I see how we can solve it (add new fields in /etc/dpkg/origins/* to > describe parent relationship, and create a new tool to query those > meta-information) but I wonder what impact you expect it would have > on the decision of exporting DEB_VENDOR in the build environment. Well I just want this issue to be considered near the initial introduction of DEB_VENDOR. > Would you like a DEB_VENDORS="Gobuntu Ubuntu Debian" or similar > so that no external tool is required ? > > ifneq (,$(filter Ubuntu,$(DEB_VENDORS))) > # Ubuntu or derivative > endif That would be a possible implementation which I wouldn't mind using; albeit the name of the field isn't too obvious but I don't have any good idea. I think I'd be fine with either an external tool or environment vars, but in any case the handling of specific vendor and inherited vendors should be similar IMO. Thanks! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org