[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Aug 01, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for >> > > serious work. >> > That's a bold statement. >> Are you serious? (SCNR ;-) > Yes. I do not use either and I think I have been doing serious Debian > work so far. > Building in chroots *hides* bugs.
Of course. However, not building in chroots also hides bugs. Why do you think it's better to build in a chroot? I think a package should be built on the developer's system (which, hopefully, is a typical example for the environment were the package will be used and built), and in a clean chroot. It should be tested (in the sense of: Can it be installed? Does it run at all?) in a chroot, and also on the developer's system. Of course the amount of testing needed depends on the extent of the changes. But not testing at all in a clean environment isn't a good idea, at least with the packages that I work with. In particular because I frequently have locally changed configuration files, which may hide some bugs, too. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
