On 29/09/2013 16:36, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 16:18:32 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to propose two release goals for Jessie (and probably >> Jessie + 1). >> >> First, I would like to propose a release goal which will aim to make >> sure that the CC and CXX variables are honored. >> Currently, last time I tried, around 40 % of the packages will not take >> in account such declaration [1]. >> CC=/usr/bin/randomcompiler CXX=/usr/bin/randomcompiler++ dpkg-buildpackage >> > I for one don't think package builds should obey random environment > variables, so I wouldn't consider a failure of the above command a bug, Why ? I am not sure that CC & CXX are random variables :) > let alone an important one. And 40% of failures means this isn't even > close to achievable as a release goal, even if there was consensus > around the idea. I will have to double check the number. It might be lower... but it is quite high :( > What would that buy you over changing /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ > anyway? > It is pretty much the same. To change /usr/bin/cc, you have to make sure that the packages will be using it...
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