Bug#843486: ITP: vectis -- build software in a disposable virtual machine
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Package name : vectis
Version : (unreleased, not ready for wide use yet)
Upstream Author : Simon McVittie
URL : https://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/vectis.git
https://github.com/smcv/vectis
License : MIT (Expat)
Programming Lang: Python
Description : build software in a disposable virtual machine
vectis compiles software and does other Debian-related tasks in a temporary
environment, using an implementation of the autopkgtest virtualisation
service interface.
To minimize side-effects on the host system by the built code, and
side-effects on the built code by the host system, vectis does all builds
in a newly cloned virtual machine (or in theory a container, but that mode
has not yet been tested).
To avoid the need to back up large VM or container images, vectis can
rebuild its own VM images and sbuild tarballs at any time.
To increase confidence that a package that builds successfully in vectis
will also build successfully in real Debian infrastructure, vectis tries
to be pedantically correct: builds use a sbuild configuration closely
resembling the real buildds, and in particular Architecture:any and
Architecture:all binary packages are built separately by default,
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