On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > "Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> writes: > > Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the > > software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so > > on their own, the "Free" we are so proud on gets mood. > > Doesn't pbuilder make it easy enough for anyone to modify and build the > software on their own?
The issue with sterile build environments is not just for building packages for normal use. If I'm fixing a bug in a package, I may need to build that package several times, testing different fixes. If everyone assumes that packages will be built in a sterile environment, nobody will care that their packages don't build twice in a row, but that's exactly the situation that I have when trying to test a patch. Also, I'm not going to set up an entire chroot or sbuild or pbuilder environment just to test a patch. Packages should definitely be built for the archive in a clean environment, but they should still build correctly in an unclean one. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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