[Build-common-hackers] Re: Bug#198246: (cdbs usage) set variables in debian/rules after including fragments

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:59, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:42:23PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > According to my program[1] your package uses CDBS[2] and sets variables
> > such as DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS *before* including the relevant file
> > such as /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk.
> 
> Damn, jbailey! I learned about setting them before in one of you
> exampleS :)

Yeah, we kind of went back and forth on it.  The advantages to setting
them consistently below won out though.