On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:14:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, James Westby wrote: > > > Right now, dpkg-dev building tools are mostly VCS-agnostic (I would like > > > this to change, by providing a generic vcs-buildpackage) and the only > > > solution to add those fields is to pass -D parameters to the dpkg-source > > > call. > > > > Which isn't currently accessible from dpkg-buildpackage, advice on > > dealing with that would be appreciated. > > That's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566230 > we just need to decide on the proper syntax and we can implement it. > But I got no feedback :(
Ah, shame you got no feedback. None of them are particularly appetising, but I would lean towards dpkg-buildpackage --dpkg-source-opt="<opt>" -us -uc as there is less magic than the first and less typing than the second. > That seems pretty hypothetic at that stage though, can you think of > concrete use cases? Please see my other mail for this. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

