Debian Bug report logs - #901678
lintian: Do not recommend MAINT_OPTIONS for nocheck

Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Drew Parsons <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 1001588

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Subject: Re: Bug#901609: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage ignores
 DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS
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> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the request, but this is inside-out,
> dpkg-buildpackage always calls debian/rules (and never the other way
> around) so whatever is set from within that file will not be visible
> to the outter process. dpkg-buildpckage does not (and cannot) really
> care what you do with either of the variables in debian/rules. :)
> 
> Barring some misunderstanding from my part, I'm planning on closing
> this report in a bit.


The problem is this:  in debian/rules I have DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck,
which is used (I don't know by what exactly) to prevent the build
system from automatically running test.

But lintian complains that it should be set to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS
instead.

But when I change it to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck (or "export
DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck"), the tests are run.
DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS is being ignored at build time.

Is it dh and debhelper that the bug needs to be sent to?

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