Re: Derivatives setting build profiles by default (like noudeb) and how to revert that

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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* Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> [260630 15:39]:
>Ubuntu does not want to build udebs, because udebs are not used in
>Ubuntu. dpkg was patched to set "DEB_BUILD_PROFILE=noudeb" by default
>when building a package for Ubuntu. This behavior can be overridden by
>setting the build profile "!noudeb", but "!noudeb" is not valid build
>profile name according to the discussion in
>https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/730
>
>I like to discuss this topic with the wider audience to come up with a
>clean and acceptable solution for Ubuntu.
[..]
>What are your thoughts? Do you have a better solution?

Why was this done by patching dpkg, instead of configuring the 
Ubuntu buildds to always set the noudeb profile?

It seems patching dpkg causes more problems than it solves?

Chris
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