[debhelper-devel] Debhelper patch for supporting Build-Profiles field
Daniel Schepler
dschepler at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 03:31:22 UTC 2014
On Monday, February 10, 2014 01:50:52 PM Joey Hess wrote:
> 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
Here's the latest version of the patch with your suggested updates -- this
time against debhelper git. (It excludes the autogenerated changes in po4a
files.)
--
Daniel Schepler
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