Re: Building packages twice in a row
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:43:34 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed May 16, 2007 at 10:11:55 +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?
>
> That would surely be the better solution to catch this policy violation.
> But the way we did it now was the fastest and easiest solution for now,
> and showed already how many packages have no correct working clean
> targets.
This would also find bugs like this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405321
A fix for this should be trivial in most cases.
Regards,
Tino
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