Le jeudi, 30 août 2012 14.46:33, Jon Dowland a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:12:15PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > We are building a binary distribution which main characteristic is to > > have the packages built _rarely_. As such, a useful but CPU-expensive > > operation is always worth it. > > The situation is slightly different for Debian-native packages. In that > case, there's little value in not replacing the source PNGs with > better-compressed alternatives. (games-thumbnails is such a native > package.)
ACK. But no "repackaging" is involved in that case. > > And if the package building infrastructure comes in your way by enforcing > > unneeded repeated builds, then the problem resides in the package > > building infrastructure. > > Are we not required to provide a functional 'clean' target in our rules > files? Should these not remove files that were generated as part of the > build process? Yes. This doesn't mean that when you are working on a packaging, you have to run the clean target at every iteration. "I'm not doing $EXPENSIVE_OPERATION in my packages because it comes in my way when I work on the packages" is a bad excuse IMHO. OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208301514.16462.o...@debian.org
