Comment 4 for bug 1623256

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: adjust the way to create dbgsym packages like Debian does

We'll probably have to keep /CurrentlyBuilding around for a while. It's used by both pkgbinarymangler and pkg-create-dbgsym (to my knowledge; if you know of more, please list them here), and those would have to be updated in all series, *including* the -security pockets, before we could drop /CurrentlyBuilding entirely. Still, it's certainly straightforward to set additional environment variables. I agree that it would be nice to go that way, as the current approach is pretty weird.

Do you have a proposal for what we could do to supersede the use of /CurrentlyBuilding in pkgbinarymangler?

In comment #1, you suggest setting ENABLE_DBGSYM; in comment #3, you suggest setting DH_BUILD_DDEBS. Which is preferable? As far as I can see neither is supported by upstream debhelper (ENABLE_DBGSYM is a key in the internal %dh hash, not an environment variable).