Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gerard Lledó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> My understanding of debian is far from being complete, but in order to >> be built for a second time a clean is performed before (at least, using >> debuild). So directory should look like a fresh $ apt-get source >> packagename. And the contents of the files should also be the same. >> Checking that would be easier than running 2 times the compilation >> process and maybe it could be implemented as a checking tool that >> debuild could run before finishing the package, like it does with >> lintian. > > This check would fail many packages that can still be built twice in a row > (any package that runs autotools during the build process without doing a > complicated dance to preserve the upstream-shipped files, for example), > and it's not clear to me that there's a consensus that those packages are > really broken.
But exceedingly anoying when doing a patch and debdiff. Imho "dpkg-buildpackage -b; dpkg-buildpackage -S" should produce an identical diff.gz excluding timestamps. But lets irst fix packages where "dpkg-buildpackage -b;dpkg-buildpackage -b" fails. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]