Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > One of the issue in the past is that reproducible build was broken > because different build environment lead to different paths. We at least > need to address that.
I believe the reproducible build problem specifically will be largely fixed by /usr-merging the buildds so that they look like all other Debian systems. I suspect the problems that you ran into in the past were precisely because some systems on which the package was built were /usr-merged and others were not. But you make a good point that just because the /bin and /usr/bin paths both work does not mean that package build systems can pick randomly between them, since that undermines build reproducibility. They need to pick one or the other consistently. I do think packages should be allowed to do a PATH search, and it's up to the people doing a reproducible build to make sure the PATH stays consistent from one build to the next. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
