Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting
On la, 2011-02-12 at 20:22 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> 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...
Right now, such testing of such build environments is pretty haphazard
already. Developers presumably build things with debuild on their
development machines, but that's a very small test.
If we wanted to be serious about this, it would be nice for someone to
set up a maximal build chroot: something with as many packages installed
as possible. Then do test builds of all packages, and report problems.
(Then upgrade the chroot, install as many new packages as possible, and
rebuild everything. Repeat forever.)
On the other hand, I don't see that this is all that important. Most
packages will build fine in a dirty environment, and if there's trouble,
users can report problems, and then they can get fixed. Meanwhile,
having uniform, known build environments is good for reproducing builds,
and that should be good for reproducing some bugs.
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