Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> writes: > El 7/5/25 a las 21:44, Simon McVittie escribió: >> That's not clear. Different developers have different > interpretations of what "packages must build successfully from source" > means - as a minimum they need to be buildable on our official > buildds, but the more differences from that we're willing to support, > the more likely it is for users and developers to be able to rebuild a > package successfully with changes of their choice. I think the rough > consensus is "packages should build successfully on normal systems", > and then we inevitably get into arguments about whether a particular > system is or isn't normal. > > No, I don't think that's the consensus. Policy says "must", not "should". > > You could probably say that the "must" only applies to "normal systems", but > by using both "should" and "normal" in your characterization of "consensus", > you are already deviating two steps from what Policy says. If you think Policy > does not really represent the consensus, you should probably propose an > amendment.
But does Policy say anything about the PATH variable content when building packages? I haven't found anything that cover this. The closest I can find seems to be: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#environment-variables But that is for run-time not build-time. /Simon
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