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Re: Please clarify: to bugreport or not bugreport



Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> (01/11/2008):
> The most foolproof way of testing whether the package in question
> builds in pbuilder. pbuilder starts with a clean chroot, downloads the
> build dependencies, installs them and then copies and builds your
> package in that clean environment. If the package you suspect fails to
> build on a pbuilder environment, then that most likely points to a
> serious bug.

Incomplete. pbuilder's (Build-)Dependency resolution differs from
sbuild's, which is the tool used on buildds, so making sure the package
builds in pbuilder (although usually sufficient) doesn't ensure it will
do on buildds. BTW, setting sbuild chroots isn't really hard nowadays,
so people may want to give it a try. :)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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