On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:02:18AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Some build scripts might need the version in order to embed it in the > > build result. Most usually they run dpkg-parsechangelog and massage it > > from there. > > We're planning on going away from setting environment variables to export > random information as people prefer to not break debian/rules as a direct > interface. > > So it's unlikely that we're going to apply this patch. Instead we should > design some makefile snippet that people can include and that would set > all those variables by calling the right scripts.
Cool, that makes more sense, and scratches my itch too :) > > And we need a dpkg-buildflags tool first to deal with CFLAGS and al. Understood. thanks, iustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
