Re: Questions about buildinfo

[Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com>]

On 22/09/2020 10:29, Tobias Frost wrote:
> Hi mentors,

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> 
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:56:57 +0200
> From: Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com>
> To: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
> Subject: cxx-serial
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> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have uploaded the one you pointed out as needing some love at
> mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/package/libcxx-serial/.
> 
> I have problems with the debugging info containing the local build path
> and the buildinfo. Status:
> 
> As uploaded, the Build-Path stanza is not part of buildinfo. As I
> understand it, this is inconsistent with the local build path in the
> debug package which does exist (and is really hard to get rid of).
> 
> A plain 'dpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-path ' does include
> Build-Path in the buildinfo
> 
> Using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS as documented in dpkg-genbuildinfo(1) generates
> a warning message and does not include the Build-Path:
> 
> $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="+path" dpkg-genbuildinfo
> dpkg-genbuildinfo: warning: invalid flag in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS: +path
> dpkg-genbuildinfo: warning: invalid flag in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS: +path
> 
> $  grep Build-Path ../libcxx-serial_1.2.1-2_amd64.buildinfo
> $
> 
> Perhaps you can shed some light on this? 
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See also:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/History#Giving_up_on_build_paths


Cheers!
--alec