[debhelper-devel] Debhelper patch for supporting Build-Profiles field

[Joey Hess]

Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I've been thinking on this a little, and I can't seem to come up with a better 
> error message.  And on the repetition, it seems like maybe a bit of overkill 
> to write a separate function just to report the error...

It's not overkill. However, you can use 
my $err=sub { error ".." } to avoid adding a top-level function if
desired.

> OK, I was looking through debhelper.pod and didn't see any existing place in 
> there that would seem appropriate for adding this information.  Any 
> suggestions?  I'm also not sure what level of detail would be appropriate, 
> given that we're planning for this to be specified in policy.  (And dpkg-
> genchanges and dpkg-source will also be looking at those fields eventually, in 
> the latter case to populate a field of the .dsc file listing supported build 
> profiles).

"Multiple binary package support" seems the best place to mention it.
There is no need for much detail, see the other reference to
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

-- 
see shy jo
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