Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> #include <hallo.h> >> * Marco d'Itri [Tue, Aug 01 2006, 09:53:21AM]: >>> On Aug 01, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for >>> > serious work. >>> That's a bold statement. >> >> Are you serious? (SCNR ;-) >> >> No, debootstrap is an important toy but but pbuilder is hyped too much. > > I think maintainers should really build and test their packages in > clean sid chroots. It's not important Whether these are set up with > debootstrap or any other method, and whether the handling is done > with pbuilder, manually or with other tools. But it should be done, > and since these are the only tools for the purpose I know of, and > people don't like to do all by hand, I think they are in fact very > important.
There is also sbuild (which may be used with or without schroot to manage the chroot). I prefer it to pbuilder, but I may be a little biased ;-) -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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