Hi, Quoting Benjamin Drung (2015-04-13 15:23:59) > I briefly looked at the code and the man page of your script. I like the idea > to extent the sbuild package to support rebuilds. The implementation of > srebuild is very fine-tuned to one use case and will break if you violate one > of the constrains. I would prefer an implementation that is more flexible and > doesn't require soo many conditions.
I understand. > My idea would be to add an option to sbuild to provide a buildinfo file. > When this file is provided, sbuild will adjust the build dependencies to > depend on exactly the package versions that are in the buildinfo file and > tries to install these versions. This sounds like a very good idea. > This way you just have to make sure that you have the package versions > somewhere available in your sources.list. Then you just need a thin wrapper > around sbuild that feeds additional snapshot.debian.org sources entries into > sbuild. > > In case you keep old versions in your package repository (e.g. when you > use reprepro with multiple version management [bug #570623]), you could > simply use sbuild without any modifications. I agree with your plan but I don't have much time right now so nobody should be stopped from implementing it before I get to it :) cheers, josch
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