[debhelper-devel] Bug#763766: debhelper: please implement the new build profile syntax

Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org
Thu Oct 9 17:09:47 UTC 2014


Johannes Schauer wrote:
> If you like that better, then I can also prepare a patch which uses
> libdpkg-perl directly instead of copy&pasting the build profile evaluation
> logic from it. Since debhelper already indirectly depends on libdpkg-perl
> through dpkg-dev this additional dependency should not be a problem?

If you can do it without failing when debhelper is used with an older
version of dpkg-dev, then that seems the right approach. Otherwise, it
will make backporting debhelper harder.

Maybe just avoid loading Dpkg::BuildProfiles unless DEB_BUILD_PROFILES is
set?

-- 
see shy jo
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