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Bug#913229: release.debian.org: RC status of merged-/usr bugs?



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

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