Re: Bug#138409: [PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Randolph" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randolph> sure eventually all packages will move to the new scheme, Randolph> and everything will be happy. i'm not suggesting anything Randolph> more or less. Then it can't be made mandatory from the word go, if every single

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
> And the bit > about standards version is a red herring, really: packages are > supposed to be current with policy (which is why policy froze) -- it > is just that stable releases have packages that conform to policy as > it existed then. Packages in Sid need to be current (can't claim > anci

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > one problem is that some packages have build-dependency chains that > when resolved completely are very deep, and sometimes contains dependency > cycles. One could argue that these are bugs, but they seem difficult to fix > in some cases

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Randolph" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randolph> Proposal: This is a proposal to add information about a Randolph> package's build environment to the "changes" file that Randolph> accompanies the upload of each package. The build Randolph> environment information contains

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:14:44AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > 2. Ideally one might want to recursively list all the dependents of build- > > > dependencies too, but that is probably too expensive to compute. > > On my Pentium 166MHz, the following command took about 10s (real) to > > run, w

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
> > 2. Ideally one might want to recursively list all the dependents of build- > > dependencies too, but that is probably too expensive to compute. > On my Pentium 166MHz, the following command took about 10s (real) to > run, with devscripts (>= 2.6.90) installed: Thanks, that was good to know. o

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:08:42PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > 2. Ideally one might want to recursively list all the dependents of build- > dependencies too, but that is probably too expensive to compute. On my Pentium 166MHz, the following command took about 10s (real) to run, with devscripts

Bug#138409: [PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Proposal: This is a proposal to add information about a package's build environment to the "changes" file that accompanies the upload of each package. The build environment information contains the versions of packages used to build the given package. The