Bug#846863: /usr/bin/debuild: debuild: pass lintian options to dpkg-buildpackage

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun Dec 4 00:06:24 UTC 2016


On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:56:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:49:34 +0100 Vincent Danjean <vdanjean at debian.org>
> wrote:
> >   debuild is passing lintian options to dpkg-buildpackage which, of course, do
> > not recognize these options and fail:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >   The --display-info option, after the --lintian-opts option, should not be
> > passed to dpkg-buildpackage but, instead, kept and passed to lintian itself. 
> 
> FYI, dpkg-buildpackage has a --check-command + --check-option now to run
> lintian (with given arguments).  It is available since dpkg 1.17 (i.e.
> stable).  So technically, dpkg-buildpackage supports it (if wrapped with
> a --check-command). :)

Which is what debuild should be doing automatically, to preserve
debuild's interface.  I must've botched something there.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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