Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes: > On 19/01/10 at 14:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Well, I would argue that proper package builds in dirty environments is >> something we want in Debian anyway, and while this isn't the ideal >> method to find it, it would be a bug regardless of how the buildds >> worked. > Why would we want that? > I mean, it's very difficult to guarantee that packages build correctly > in dirty envs. I don't really see the point of enforcing that when we > have the technology (pbuilder, sbuild + lvm snapshots) there to ignore > that problem. Because we want our users to be able to patch and rebuild our software to suit their needs. Asking them to set up a chroot build environment is asking quite a lot. People do occasionally test whether packages rebuild properly in dirty environments and file bugs when they don't. Being absolutely certain it will always work is, of course, hard, but I think fixing the bug when we detect it is the right idea, rather than treating it as a bug in the build environment. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
