On 2016-09-13 at 12:25, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2016-09-13 12:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > >> On 09/13/2016 01:49 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: >> >>> You can't reproduce it, or you don't want to reproduce it? >> >> I added the tag because I couldn't reproduce the issue in unstable >> where we build our packages. It's great that it's reproducible in >> testing, but we don't upload to testing. > > Sometimes we do... > > In any case, that's not the point. Testing is what will become > stable. Packages in stable need to be buildable on stable (for > security updates and point releases) and "does the package currently > build in testing?" is the best approximation we can have to "will the > package build when it's in stable?".
Not to mention, building for upload isn't the only valid - or, AFAIK, the only supported - reason to want to build in a given release. Users of Debian - including both testing and stable - may want to rebuild a given package themselves, perhaps with local modifications, for use in the release which they are running; my understanding is that this is considered something that's desirable to support, at least as a matter of philosophy. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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