[Build-common-hackers] Bug#208511: cdbs: suggestion for _package variables

[Julian Gilbey]

Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.6

Just looking at the fix for 206955, thanks!

Thinking how it would apply to the package I was working on,
inetutils-syslogd.  Now environment variables use alphanumerics and
underscores, whereas package names use alphanumerics, '+', '-' and '.'
It would make sense, therefore, if for the package specfic debhelper
variables such as DEB_INSTALL_DIRS_<package>, if the package name were
mangled so that '+', '-' and '.' were all translated to '_'.  Would
that be easy to do?  (Yes, just change the appropriate occurrences of
$(cdbs_curpkg) to either $(shell echo $(cdbs_curpkg) | tr '.+-' '_'),
or introduce a new variable $(cdbd_curpkg_mangled) or similar in
buildcore.mk and then use that instead.)

   Julian

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