[PATCH] debian: drop export-dir from gbp.conf

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Feb 11 12:51:13 PST 2018


Hi Carl--

On Fri 2018-02-09 19:08:59 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
> One of the things that has always bugged me about a bunch of that Debian
> build utilities is that they spit out results into the parent directory
> of the current working directory from where they are invoked.

i agree that this is a legacy thing and not something you'd typically
want to introduce into new systems you were building today.  but, it's
the status quo…

> I _think_ the export-dir directive here was something I found that made
> git-buildpackage behave more sane in this regard.

yup, and you can still get those same benefits by putting export-dir in
your own ~/.gbp.conf, but you might prefer ./debian-build, while i
prefer ../debian-build and still someone else prefers
/home/foo/debian-uploads.  so the user-specific ~/.gbp.conf is a better
place for this config setting than the project-specific debian/gbp.conf.

      --dkg


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