Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the > > > exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. > > > > Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call d

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Plus a note in policy clarifying that debian/rules is only an > interface for dpkg-buildpackage but not users. Right. If you want to make this a rule, then we should discuss it, reach a consensus, document and publicize the change, and so forth.

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:03:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > >>> I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference > >>> betwe

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > >> I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference > >> between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. >

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: >> I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference >> between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. >> Such change would rather lead me to hardcode values of >> DEBIAN

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:46 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > People have noticed that and already requested that we can call > > > > arbitrary > > > > targets of debian/rules with all the proper initialization done > > > > precisely > > > > for te