On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:52:36PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 22:35 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > Should I remove the dependency? > > Packages producing different results depending on the cleanliness of the > build environment are never great for reproducibility for security > updates and the like. > > In this case I'm leaning towards preferring always building with jack to > sometimes doing so (or explicitly telling the build system not to use > jack even if it's available) and have unblocked the package.
Thanks! Those are my thoughts exactly, I definitely agree that builds should be reproducible. In this particular instance I asked the question because it was an extra change since the version in testing; had I removed the dependency I would have disabled jack support in the call to configure as you suggest (and re-enabled it for Wheezy). Regards, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
