On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:11:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > It is not strictly necessary, but it allows one to build reproducibly even when not using dpkg-buildpackage, e.g. when trying to re-run a specific part of the build via `debian/rules build` or something else. This is helpful to save time when debugging. using dpkg-buildpackage is also not mandatory, eg developers could build with "./debian/rules binary" initially and upload this to the archive… -- cheers, Holger (and yes, we need to get rid off developer built uploads, _except_ for bootstrapping only… amen.)
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