Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I don't have any time to work on this, but it occurred to me reading this
> that it might be useful for QA purposes to have a version of debuild that
> *unsanitizes* the environment to test robustness. An evil-debuild that
> sets every problematic environment variable that it can think of (TAPE,
> QUILT_PATCHES, LANG, LC_ALL, PWD, etc.), builds the source in a directory
> name containing a space, and otherwise tries all the environmental things
> that have broken packages in the past.
Or we get source-only uploads rolling and always build in a controlled
environment.
Michael
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