Re: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Building as much as possible from source at package build time should
> be the norm not the exception, otherwise the build process for that
> source will bitrot and we will never detect that.
Having said that, I expect there will be exceptions to this (examples
I can think of below). We currently don't have any standard way to
check that these exceptions are still buildable from source.
For example:
Packages that contain raytraced images that take a month or more to
render. We probably don't want to rebuild those every time. Various
games are probably an example of this.
Packages that need to download data from the Internet and munge it
into a cached form. lintian is an example of this, usually this is
done at release time. fonttools is another example, it has a
seldom-run (and now broken) script to extract table names from the
OpenType spec and put them in a python module.
--
bye,
pabs
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