[debhelper-devel] Bug#866581: debhelper: dh should be able to optimize out helpers even when passed options
Niels Thykier
niels at thykier.net
Fri Jun 30 08:23:09 UTC 2017
Package: debhelper
Version: 10.2.5
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
As it is, if you pass an "unknown" option to dh, it will run every
single helper it knows. This is unhelpful and slow - even more so
because said option will trigger the slow path of "Getopt" parsing
making the user pay even more for simplicity.
This even holds for "-B" and other short forms of even "known"
options.
We should probably extend the PROMISE NOOP to include options as well.
Thanks,
~Niels
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