Hello people, just now at DebConf we had a small BOF to discuss this problem, that has several times come up.
Lastly I think https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/02/msg00216.html to which Simon had a quite nice answer. This is what we came up with: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildArtifacts#Design_proposal I'm copying it here for reference: * decide on a directory name (`./debian/export_artifacts/`?) * the build process will dump any files that could be interesting to export in there (no decision if/how to define the structure within this directory) * potentially, all `dh_*` could copy there whatever is relevant to them (i.e., `dh_auto_configure` could export configure logs, `dh_auto_test` the various test logs, ..) * the containering tool (sbuild, pbuilder, ...) at the end of the build, regardless of the result of the build: * check if the directory exists, and it's non-empty * if true, tar it up * place the tar'ed-up artifacts in the usual results directory, with a predictive name (`$srcpkg_$ver_$arch.artifacts.tar.xz`?) * tbd if this should happen always or opt-in by the build caller * `buildd`/`pybuildd` will check if such file has been exported, if it is, then it will be uploaded to some service * something as simple as an authenticate HTTP POST somewhere will do - no strong auth needed (right?) * this new service will simply just accept whatever upload and store it * possibly define an expiry rule for these artifacts to not hog all space needlessly Matthias Klose would like to find a way to do something that at the end of a build will look for and collect all the relevant files that are produced during an ICE (for example all the pre-processor inputs, etc). I'm not sure how to best solve it, but he was imagining a hook somewhere (in dpkg?) that would look for them and copy them into the directory. Looking for inputs! -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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