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Re: command to build a Debian package

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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.

Best,
Alex

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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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