Jérémy Bobbio: > The attached patch will enable dpkg-buildpackage to create .buildinfo > files as specified on the Debian wiki [1]. They have two main purposes: > > * recording information about the system environment used during a > particular build—versions of the build dependencies installed, system > architecture, etc. for easier forensics/debugging; > * describe how to recreate (partially or in full) the original > environment when trying to reproduce a particular build.
I think the proposed patch is missing a field to record some environment
variables that can affect the build process. Right now, I'm thinking of
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and DEB_flag_{SET,STRIP,APPEND,PREPEND} (from
dpkg-buildflags). Maybe others? Build profiles?
Initially I was against recording such information, but now that we
understand the purpose of .buildinfo files better and not mandate that
they be reproducible themselves, it doesn't matter if one contains
`DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=4` and the other
`DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=16`. It is the responsibility of users
trying to recreate a given package to filter this out.
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lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
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