Am 08.11.18 um 16:21 schrieb Simon McVittie: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 at 14:59:29 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 01:44:14PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> I've opened sbuild-createchroot bug <https://bugs.debian.org/913228> >>> suggesting that it should create non-merged-/usr chroots to sidestep >>> this for buildd builds, but there are many other ways for maintainers >>> and testers to build binaries. >> >> Yes, this is not a solution in any way. > > Of course not, but it might be a good idea anyway, to mitigate the class > of bugs that resemble #843433 and #913226 (source packages that sometimes > produce broken binaries are obviously bad, but they're less immediately > disruptive than the binaries in the archive actually being broken). > > Or are you advocating deliberately breaking buildd-built packages that > have bugs similar to #843433 and #913226, as a way to detect them? Wasn't there the idea to utilise the reproducible-build effort to detect binaries that differ depending on whether they were built in merged-usr environment or not? If that is feasible, this would allow for a less disruptive way then to rely on finding those issues by "breaking" unstable. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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