Re: Sponsor Checklist
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:28:07 +0100, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> said:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:13:03 -0500
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:53:49 +0100, Neil Williams
>> <codehelp@debian.org> said:
>> > I can never run piuparts - it just takes far too long over my
>> > crippled internet connection. Isn't there some way of getting
>> > piuparts to use the cached archives like pbuilder does? I already
>> > use the existing pbuilder chroot but downloading ALL dependencies
>> > EVERY TIME piuparts runs is completely useless to me.
>>
>> I am not sure I follow. You can stash the tarball for the chroot
>> (you need chroots for pbuilder anyway). Then you just have piuparts
>> do a simple install-purge test.
>>
>> piuparts ../foo_1.0-2_i386.deb
> At which point piuparts downloads all the dependencies of that package
> (which for a Gnome or KDE package get to several hundred Mb or more)
> instead of looking in /var/cache/apt/archives etc. as pbuilder does.
Hmm. I generally use a local proxy (Apt::Acquire::HTTP::Proxy,
or something), so I have never notice that -- since _something_ had to
download the packages anyway for me to be able to build/test it. I
also use apt-proxy to keep a local partial mirror, which also uses
squid, so I don't know whether it is squid or apt-proxy saving me the
hit.
> I do not think that piuparts should be considered as an "essential"
> part of a package testing process. I see no reason to require the use
> of piuparts in a sponsorship situation (but then I don't see that
> piuparts is actually something I need myself either). Using piuparts
> complicates a simple part of the normal process for no apparent
> reason.
> Why do you consider piuparts worth using?
Because nothing else catches what piuparts catches. It helps me
meet the policy directive that purge should get rid of whatever the
package installed -- and no more. It also tests upgrades -- and really,
nothing else does that.
I do think that smoother upgrades is something debian needs to
be providing; we already are pretty good at that, so ensuring we take
steps to make it remain this way is a good idea.
manoj
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