On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 23:49, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: >> Per http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt a release goal is double >> compilation support, and one step to ensure that is to verify that clean >> works. When doing an normal dpkg-buildpackage, you can pass the >> parameter -tc to clean the directory after build, but when building >> under a pbuild environment, no such posibillity exists (Probably because >> of the reasoning as it will be deleted anyway, so no clean is required). > > You mean passing "--debbuildopts -tc" doesn't work?
That was a miss from my part, I read that as debuild options, and not options passable to dpkg-buildpackage. > >> But though Policy section 4.9 specifies that clean must be able to restore, >> many developers miss to check clean after build as they often build in >> pbuilder environments, and the only way to check that is to do an normal >> build, which might miss other things instead. >> >> Even trhough it will take some CPU cycles more, my advice is to clean >> in the chroot by default. > > I don't think pbuilder needs to divert from dpkg-buildpackage here; > just like nothing runs lintian by default, some configuration is needed > for stricter QA with pbuilder. I think that's fine, but perhaps we > could offer a "paranoiac" or "strict" or "qa" pbuilder config which > would enable lintian, clean after build etc. I think this is more > something wishlist / nice to have than a defect in pbuilder though -- I > do understand why you want to use the lever though. > > Bye, > -- > Loïc Minier > Hehe, true that's it's not an defect in pbuilder, the problem lies in the view of pbuilder, that if a package builds in a clean chroot environment, then all is good, I wonder how many execute pdebuild as pdebuild --debuildopts "--lintian -tc --linitan-opts \"--show-overrides --info\"" On an other note: As debuild runs linitan per default, shouldn't pdebuild also run linitan per default? Note 2: manpage for pdebuild says " --debbuildopts [dpkg-buildpackage options]", should it be dpkg-buildpackage options or debuild options? -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
