Re: Using stable as a Debian Package Maintainer
+++ Jan Dittberner [2014-03-02 16:19 +0100]:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:11:58PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > what is the consensus about using stable (s/testing/jessie/g in
> > sources.list) for maintaining Debian packages (in conjunction with a sid
> > VM or a chroot to make sure it always builds)?
>
> Packages targeted for sid must always be built and tested using a sid
> environment. Nothing prevents you from using a machine running stable with
> pbuilder/cowbuilder to build packages for unstable.
Or sbuild of course, which is what will actually get used on the buildds,
and makes it trivial to use the same chroots for building and testing.
But yes it's vital that you do builds in an up-to-date unstable chroot.
Wookey
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