Lintian tag: debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The rules file appears to be reading or modifying a variable not intended
for use by package maintainers.

The special variables DEB_*FLAGS_{SET,APPEND} can be used by users who
want to re-compile Debian packages with special (or non-standard) build
flags.

Please use the DEB_*FLAGS_MAINT_{SET,APPEND} flags instead.

Please refer to Bug#631786 for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/rules
Renamed from: debian-rules-should-not-use-or-modify-user-only-variable

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
cross-toolchain-base 74 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:472]
cross-toolchain-base 74 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:546]
cross-toolchain-base-mipsen 32 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:546]
cross-toolchain-base-mipsen 32 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:472]
cross-toolchain-base-ports 71 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:545]
cross-toolchain-base-ports 71 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:472]
hannah 2.0.1+ds1-0.3 warning debian-rules-uses-wrong-environment-variable 1 [debian/rules:8]