Hi (again),
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:42 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
[...]
> while investigating #476054 I discovered that debuild is really a fork of
> dpkg-buildpackage and no more a simple wrapper of it. (BTW the manual
> page is wrong... it says "It first runs dpkg-buildpackage" which is not
> the case unless you have dpkg-cross installed... BTW dpkg-cross does no
> more divert dpkg-buildpackage in its latest versions).
[...]
> I'am now awaiting from you some wishlist bugs on dpkg-dev so that we can
> fill in the gaps of missing features on dpkg-buildpackage and get rid of
> that ugly fork. You can also patch your copy to add the same set of
> features as quick fix, but I really want to cleanup the situation in the
> mid-term.
I'd prefer that we were able to merge the two implementations in the
longer term, if for no other reason than because it saves us work :-) As
I mentioned, the hook support appears to be the reason that the fork
occurred, and the major feature I'm aware of that's currently only
available in debuild.
In the meantime, however, I may add the *FLAGS{,_APPEND} support to
debuild (and therefore the 10 extra variables to the set that debuild
preserves by default). Are there any other features which it would be
worth adding at the same time?
Regards,
Adam
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