On 17/07/07 at 11:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [Lucas Nussbaum] > >> The problem is that it isn't required to have exactly the same source > >> tree after "./configure ; make ; make clean". It's just required that > >> "./configure ; make ; make clean ; ./configure ; make" works. It is > >> possible that the first build modifies some files, but that the package > >> can still be built, without being differerent from the one from the > >> first build. > > > > How about this then: if you debuild without -b, -B, or -nc, it builds a > > source package before building the binary packages. What if it were to > > build another source package afterwards, and compare the two .diff.gz > > files? Timestamps in the diff would be ignored. But if the actual > > file contents of the diff were different, that would IMO be a bug. > > -- > > Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ > > debuild; debuild -S; debdiff should give zero changes. Often enough > that isn't true though.
Being pedantic doesn't help if nobody fixes the bugs. Only about half of the ~400 "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs have been fixed so far[0]. So if you want to move forward with this issue, you have to figure out a reasonable way (that adds at most hundreds of bugs at each step, not thousands). A good second step could be to check that the .debs generated by the first and second builds are reasonably identical. (excluding timestamps, etc) [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=qa-doublebuild;[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
