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Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set



On 2007-08-28 12:22 -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.

Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT is an easy way to break lots of scripts.

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André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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