[Letsencrypt-devel] Bug#806532: Bug#806532: FTBFS on jessie

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/12/15 08:03, Francois Marier wrote:
> On 2015-12-28 at 07:44:01, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> Yes, I was in a repository with a ".git" directory
>>
>> I frequently build packages that way when I am tinkering with them so it
>> would be good to find a way to support that reliably.  Maybe upstream
>> needs to test for some environment variable or the existence of some
>> other file that tells it not to do this ChangeLog update.
> 
> Thanks for confirming. I agree that the check done upstream could be better
> though I'm not sure exactly what it should be.
> 


My own approach to things like this has been to use an environment variable

I create a patch against upstream's build script, so it checks for the
environment variable.  Then I send that to upstream through Github or
whatever they use.

Then I set the environment variable in debian/rules