Hello, On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 12:01AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:22:17AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: >> For example, someone might want to use a Debian system to investigate a >> bug on an Ubuntu system. They might begin by downloading some source >> packages from the Ubuntu mirrors. Since they obtained them from Ubuntu, >> they will form the reasonable expectation that unpacking these source >> packages will get them the code running on the Ubuntu system they are >> debugging. > > This is not a "reasonable expectation", this is a bogus assumption. > And users should be clearly told that investigating Ubuntu problems > on a Debian system is not a good idea - the supported way for that > is a chroot (or some more sophisticated virtualization solution). People don't expect that running dpkg-buildpackage on a Debian system would get them the binary package running on an Ubuntu system. That's different from the expectation that the source they get is the source running on their Ubuntu system. -- Sean Whitton
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