On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38:39AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> No, best practice is to verify *that their packages build correctly in a
> clean environment*.
You nitpicker :-), but you're right, thanks for pointing it out. [1]
> The easiest and most reliable way to do that is by doing the build in
> such a clean environment yourself and using that build for the upload.
Given the above and given that the point made by Bernhard was about
testing, I believe the distinction has no impact on my arguments.
> I am certainly not opposed to the current plans to do all builds on
> the buildds
I'm glad to hear that!
Cheers.
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[1] although I see very little reasons for not uploading the binaries
built in the clean environment; I've surely always uploaded them
ever since pbuilder has been introduced
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