** Joe Smith :: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? > Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the package > to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. It could prevent a user > from recompiling on his own system, which thusly defeats the point of having > the source in the first place. If a package Fails To Build From Source on a > end-user system it is an RC bug. By bug definitions i would say a minimum of > 'serious', but 'critical' would be better. Why? Simple: If users can make the > changes they want, than Debian is NOT free. If it is not free, it has failed.
I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and minimal chroot jail. This way, (1) every package will predictably build from (unchanged) source and (2) every variation that the user *wants* in his package becomes documented in the debian/* files. -- HTH, Massa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]