On 05/05/13 at 03:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:00:07AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Anyway, given that our infrastructure builds binary packages from a fresh > > unpacked source package, I would prefer if we keep the compromise that > > imperfect "clean" targets are not release-critical problems. > > Note that for a big majority of packages, double builds work just fine.
[citation needed] :) > In fact, that's most of what "make" is for: coping with partially > complete trees. I think that it depends on what kind of double-builds you are talking about. For binary-only builds, I agree with you. But if you try to rebuild the source package after a binary build, I'm quite sure that a large number of packages will fail to build. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130505023005.gb19...@xanadu.blop.info
