Hi! On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 02:39:58 +0000, peter green wrote: > Package: libdpkg-perl > Version: 1.17.5
> While looking at a build failure in raspbian I noticed that > "dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS" on raspbian returned an empty > string. Tracing through the code I found a chain of calls that > eventually lead to get_vendor_object in Vendor.pm searching for a > vendor specific perl module (Dpkg::Vendor::$name where $name can be > one of several case variants of the vendor name). If it isn't found > then Dpkg::Vendor::Default is loaded (which has different settings > from Dpkg::Vendor::Debian). > > I spoke to pabs about this on irc and in our opinion if a perl > module specific to the current vendor cannot be found then the > parent relationships declared in the dpkg origins files should be > followed until a perl module is found (or the end of the chain is > reached). This follows the principle that when someone creates a > deriviative of a distribution everything that has not been > explicitly changed for that derivative should be the same as it's > parent. Ah, yeah makes sense, I'm implementing this for 1.17.7. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
