On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:54:41AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > 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. :) Thanks for filling in. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah
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