On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:03:20PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > If you depend on python3-sphinx (>= 1.7.5-4~) then most likely the scripts > will be using Python 3. The opposite will happen only if the user manually > updated the alternative, and this won’t be the case on a sane build > environment.
I'm not so sure about this. I don't remember Policy specifying whether
a build process can make assumptions on the configuration of possible
alternatives, and at any rate I wouldn't bet my build process on that:
after all you talk about "sane build environment", but I don't remember
any kind of consensus that said building on your dirty daily system is
not supported.
I'm personally biased as a member of the Reproducible Builds team that
believe any possible variable in the environment must not affect the
build result, this sounds like yet another one to me.
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