Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog wrote: Even if there's only two things, the fact is that the package maintainer wants not only to decide what is supported but he might also want to enable some features... Did you think about having two fields, one to specify the set of

Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thanks for your answers. On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: Even if there's only two things, the fact is that the package maintainer wants not only to decide what is supported but he might also want to enable some features... Did you think about having two

Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: This doesn't make sense to me. The maintainer writes debian/rules; why would they need to change Build-Options in debian/control to enable anything about the build? Because they want that anyone can easily

Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further I think it would be good if one could say use bar if supported in an environment variable or conffile. For example the user might want to use parallel building with 2 cores if the package supports it. But if the package does not then

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

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: This doesn't make sense to me. The maintainer writes debian/rules; why would they need to change Build-Options in debian/control to enable anything about the build? Because they want that anyone can easily