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Re: Building packages twice in a row



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:11:55AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to unpack a package twice in two different 
> directories, build and clean in one dir and then compare the obtained 
> tree with the tree available in the other dir?

IMHO, a good test would be to build the package twice and then to compare 
whether the created .debs are identical between the first and second run. 
(Of course, file timestamps would have to be ignored when comparing.)

Cheers,

  Richard

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