Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting
* Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> [110211 23:01]:
> 3) uniform, known build environments
I think is a major disadvantage of this suggestion.
Free Software is about being able to modify what you run. The day a user
can no longer simply do a
apt-get build-dep name
apt-get source name
dpkg-source -x name*.dsc
cd name-*
edit some files
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb
would be a very sad day.
If the packages used are only ever built in unnatural virgin
environments, there is basically no testing if building them on
a real user machine works. And things not tested usually just stop
working after some time...
Bernhard R. Link
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