Bug#777239: strip-nondeterminism: print log entry when fixing a file

[Andrew Ayer]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 03:18:11 +0000
Daniel Shahaf <danielsh at apache.org> wrote:

> Chris Lamb wrote on Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 22:12:35 +1300:
> > Andrew Ayer wrote:
> > 
> > > print log entry when fixing a file
> > 
> > This should probably be enabled when DH_VERBOSE=1.
> > 
> > Not sure the cleanest way of "poking this through" given we want
> > strip-nondeterminism to be distribution agnostic, etc. Any ideas?
> 
> For starters, we could add a -v/--verbose flag to the
> distribution-agnostic code.  Then we could look into making
> DH_VERBOSE imply that flag in the Debian-specific code.
> 
> I assume it'd be along the lines of: 1) Add a 'verbose' knob to the
> library, 2) Have strip-nondeterminism set that flag when -v, 3) Have
> dh_strip_nondeterminism set that flag when DH_VERBOSE.  (But I'm not
> familiar with how dh invokes strip-nondeterminism.)

+1.  The code was structured to work this way.  Specifically,
dh_strip_nondeterminism should check if $dh{VERBOSE} is set; the
debhelper perl library sets this if verbosity is enabled in debhelper.

Cheers,
Andrew