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Re: command to build a Debian package

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On Vi, 22 ian 21, 14:00:42, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> 
> On 1/22/21 1:53 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > I'm surprised to see on
> > 
> >    https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
> > 
> > that the recommended command to build a Debian package is
> > dpkg-buildpackage. I had problems with it in the past as it
> > doesn't clean up the environment (and some packages are very
> > sensitive to some environment variables), and AFAIK, debuild
> > (which I now use) is usually recommended, or even pdebuild.
> > 
> > Has anything changed?
> > 
> 
> Look on the URL, it is the SimpleBackport.
> Ideally you should use a clean chroot.
> But any tool resulting in a .deb package is fine.
> There are different ways to build a package for sure.

Besides, it's a wiki, feel free to edit it ;)

(though in this particular case I would rather mention the other tools 
in addition, together with reasons to use them, instead of just 
rewriting the page for debuild or pdebuild)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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command to build a Debian package Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-22 14:00 +0100
  Re: command to build a Debian package Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 14:20 +0100
  Re: command to build a Debian package Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-01-22 14:20 +0100
  Re: command to build a Debian package George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 18:10 +0100

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