Re: Use and abuse of the unreproducible tag

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:31:44PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 13.09.2016 18:25, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >
> > Regardless of whether there's consensus that you agree with, it's an RC bug to
> > not build within the same release, and has been for several releases now.
> 
> so the solution is easy.  just implement a check that the package still builds
> reproducible in testing *before* it migrates to testing?

You are very funny :-) That would not work, as very often it's updated
packages entering testing that breaks already existing ones.

We deliberately break things in testing and unstable all the time,
(new GCC releases, new debhelper breaking backwards compatibility, etc),
because we assume that we will be able to fix whatever is broken.

But we still want packages in testing to be buildable in testing, so
the only solution is really periodic archive rebuilds, and continuous
integration systems like the one in reproducible builds which rebuild
packages over and over again, both in testing and unstable.

Thanks.