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Re: FTBFS if built twice in a row



On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> >> This check would fail many packages that can still be built twice in a
> >> row (any package that runs autotools during the build process without
> >> doing a complicated dance to preserve the upstream-shipped files, for
> >> example), and it's not clear to me that there's a consensus that those
> >> packages are really broken.

> > But exceedingly anoying when doing a patch and debdiff.

> Not if you use pdebuild or similarly build in a chroot, which IMO everyone
> should be doing.

I find that it's still useful to be able to do repeated edit, compile
and run cycles during development, if only for performance.

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