Hello Christian,if you want to improve my understanding of Debian's build environment and learn more about it you should start to build yourself a package locally in a Debian's build environment.
I went this way myself some years ago. We here at the list we can help you to do it yourself.
I tried to document my way I do it. This documentation is public. It is like a reference where you can look into it to find answer for your questions. Otherwise ask here at the list and subscribe at debian-mentors@lists.debian.org.
The reference is work in progress you can find the last version at https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb (Sources) https://ddp-team.pages.debian.net/dpb/en_US/BuildWithGBP.pdf this is an automatic translation to English. The primary work is in German. Yes we can discus the problem in a separate thread. Regards Am 28.07.23 um 09:13 schrieb c.buhtz@posteo.jp:
Dear Mechtilde, thanks for taking time to reply. Am 28.07.2023 07:31 schrieb Mechtilde:Did you try to build the last released version? What are your problems to build backintime?At upstream I have no problems to build and test it because I'm upstream. ;)But in my understanding the problem described in the bug ticket is about building the package in Debian's build environment (servers?) where I have no idea about. Some of the checking tools (lintian?) might have a problem because my unit tests do write to home filesystem which is not allowed or possible in Debian's build environment. That is how I understand the ticket.At https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime I can't find the right log or info describing the problem in detail. I'm not familiar with the system. That is why I ask questions like this because it is an opportunity to improve my understanding of Debian's build environment and learn more about all the fancy build-info (DD, UD, lintian, xyz, ...) links available.May I open a separate thread about the problem described in the ticket? Kind Christian
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