[debhelper-devel] Debhelper patch for supporting Build-Profiles field

[Daniel Schepler]

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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