Hi everyone, Ubuntu does not want to build udebs, because udebs are not used in Ubuntu. dpkg was patched to set "DEB_BUILD_PROFILE=noudeb" by default when building a package for Ubuntu. This behavior can be overridden by setting the build profile "!noudeb", but "!noudeb" is not valid build profile name according to the discussion in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/730
I like to discuss this topic with the wider audience to come up with a clean and acceptable solution for Ubuntu. I found https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec and the man page for dpkg-buildpackage that document build profiles. I could imagine two solutions: 1. Add a "forceudeb" (or similar) build profile which makes Ubuntu remove the "noudeb" build profile. 2. Extent dpkg-buildpackage to have a way to remove build flags. So "DEB_BUILD_PROFILE=foo -foo bar" would be equivalent to "DEB_BUILD_PROFILE=bar" What are your thoughts? Do you have a better solution? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
