On 03/07/08 at 12:24 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> severity 483350 normal
> thanks
> 
> >> I'm not sure if I should simply label your build environment as broken,
> >> or if I need to move the sockets directory to some place with a shorter
> >> path name.
> >
> > I disagree with my build environment being broken:
> > /build/user-pperl_0.25-5-amd64-0uuJx5/pperl-0.25-5/sockets/pperlnPLXc7
> > isn't such a long path.
> 
> There are less than 40 remaining characters for creating a unique UNIX
> domain socket name.  Suppose we use base16(MD5(path)), we end up with 32
> characters, plus the path to the sockets directory.  This is a very
> narrow margin.
> 
> If you insist on using this particular buildd configuration (which is
> not matched by any official buildd, AFAICT), please take this issue to
> the technical committee, or make it explicit in Policy.

This buildd configuration is used by the sbuild package.

> Of course, I could use a temporary directory outside the build tree, but
> if I honour TMPDIR, someone could still play similar games with me, so I
> don't see the point of doing that.

At least it would work by default...
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