On 2021-02-21 Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2021-02-21, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...]
> Thanks for applying. > > I don't get the point of trying to do reproducible builds on systems > > that differ significantly (usrmerge or not), it feels like make-work. > I get that, for sure. > The current reproducible builds test infrastructure is geared towards > finding issues so that we can fix them; some of the issues may seem to > be nuanced corner-cases. > In the case of usrmerge, both usrmerge and non-usrmerge systems exist in > the wild; having fewer variables that affect the build makes it > significantly easier to reproduce a build and more resilient. Bugs > triggered by building in a usrmerge environment have actually resulted > in functionally broken packages in several cases, too, so it does seem > to me important to find them early. Ok, I see. Thankfully we will get rid of that major source of make-work (supporting both usrmerge and unmerged) post bullseye ;-) #981582 Thanks, cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
