On 13/05/2016 16:33, Jon Turney wrote:
Recently I've done a little prototyping of a system to build from uploaded source packages in a VM, to verify that they recreate packages with the same contents as the uploaded packages. Issues I noted were: * a handful of packages are oddities These often contain source and patches, but no build script, so the configuration used by the maintainer to build the package isn't recorded (at least in a way accessible to automation) pkg ver arch --- --- ---- bzr 2.6+b2-2 x86 contains source for 2.6b2-1 and 2.6+b2-2 exim 4.86-1 both fetchmail 6.3.21-1 x86 flex 2.5.39-1 both orphaned ipc-utils 1.0-1 x86 mined 2015.25-0 x86_64 a note from maintainer pointing to x86 src nmh 1.6-2 both uniquely, g-b-s script name doesn't end .sh popt 1.16-1 both orphaned suite3270 3.3.15ga9-1 both uniquely, multiple g-b-s and one tarfile
flex and popt were probably built with a g-b-s like script by CGF. I had the same issue when I adopted make. popt version is last upstream, while flex had a new release last November after long time Regards Marco
