On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:40:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
That is certainly a good goal, but I think it should be done outside the scope of autobuilding, where we want clean, reproducable builds. Something like an occasional archive-wide rebuild using a specially prepared, overly-tainted (with -dev libraries) chroot and comparing to a second run with clean chroot would be more worthwhile I think (albeit more work as well). Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
