[debhelper-devel] [PATCH] Put extra options after dh-generated ones

[Dmitry Bogatov]

> Thanks for your interest.

Thanks for your maintenance.

> I have two concerns about this patch.  Please consider the following
> example:
> 
>   dh $@ --with foo,bar,baz
> 
> If the "foo" module passes "--" to dh_shlibdeps, then "bar" nor "baz"
> can pass a debhelper option dh_shlibdeps.  If "bar" also want to pass a
> "--" to dh_shlibdeps, then the modules cannot be used together.
> 
> Accordingly, I do not think your patch solves your use-case sufficiently
> to the extend where we can recommend people to use it in general.

I understand your concerns.

> Separately, applying this patch would also mean that options passed by
> the user is now overruled by the sequencer.  I am not entirely sure if
> this make sense
> 
> As for moving forward.  Maybe we need a different method for passing
> "non-options" that are passed after an "--"?  It seems like it would
> solve your use-case and interact better with other sequence extensions.

Clearly, we can't just drop '--', but maybe we should deprecate it.

What about tweak to init() function to automatically handle
two options -- `--raw-pre` and `--raw-post`?

Will this solution be generic enough, or we should support
`--raw-mangle` option, that can be given arbitrary perl code or smth like
this?

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