On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:34:58PM -0800, Karl Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing something that involves building every Debian package, > and I'm finding (usually minor) discrepancies between what I build > from source packages, and the binary packages uploaded by > maintainers. I'm building each package in its own chroot which > contains only the minimum packages (bootstrap + build-essential + > build-dependencies). > > Are such things considered bugs?
A bit of this is ineviteable because of slight differences in host system (builds to add hostname you compiled on to version strings, for example), or time of build (timestamps), but most importantly, different versions of build-dependencies. The environment changes, so does the build. Usually, this doesn't give a significant difference, and certainly not a regression. If there is a real regression, or a significant change, yeah, that might (might!) be a bug. A build of a package needs to be reasonably reproducieable after all. If there is no noticeable change though, it's certainly not a bug. Bottom line is that a difference is not a bug per se, but it may be an indication of a bug. > Also, what is the policy on the relationship between source > packages and binary packages. May two source package both produce > the same binary package? In transitional situations this happens for a while, this should however not persist. The package producing the lower version cannot be updated easily, as the archive tools would reject an upload where still the package in question is of lower version number than the one built by the other source package. I think it'd be good to ship sarge without such situations, but again, this needs to be looked into on a case-by-case basis, and I certainly dare not say that every such case must be a bug (but I suspect so in general). Note that for this issue, one of the Debian FTP scripts (rene) actually checks for this situation, and I plan to file bugs based on that test real soon now. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
