On Tuesday 20 January 2015 00:08:10 René J.V. Bertin wrote: [snip] > I can only speak for Debian and Ubuntu and for those that is true for the > packages that they ship, and for PPAs people can create. But do you really > think that Debian or Ubuntu maintainers develop their packages starting > with a clean install every time (creating a new VM each time as launchpad > does)? Every Ubuntu package that I've tried to build locally builds just > fine. And I don't have the impression that dpkg-build sets up some sort of > chroot.
I can answer that, as I am one of the people behind the Debian packages. Yes, we do build in clean chroots. We use special tools for that that helps us a lot like cowbuilder, pbuilder or sbuild. If I need to "play" with the source (for example, for tracing a bug) I use schroot's capabilities to create "disposable" chroots. It takes some time to create them, but then I'm sure I'm in a clean environment with just the tools I need. This is specially true for libraries. For applications the packaging might start in a clean environment, but must end in a clean one before uploading. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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