Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2017-10-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Some elements of this issue have changed in the last couple years, so following up with a few updated points below... On 2015-05-24, Stuart Prescott wrote: >> > > I'd expect that setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on a package build >> > > should not change the resulting binary packages. It might

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 24. Mai 2015, Stuart Prescott wrote: The check does not impose anything on package maintainers, like migration blocking or similar. So even if there was a substantial amount of packages that would fail that test, it would still be useful information for the reproducible

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: jenkins I'd expect that setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on a package build should not change the resulting binary packages. It might make the build succeed despite being broken, but if it succeeds

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Helmut, I'd expect that setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on a package build should not change the resulting binary packages. It might make the build succeed despite being broken, but if it succeeds without nocheck, it should be no different when enabled. Policy is, however, silent on

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:42:31AM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: Policy is, however, silent on whether that is the correct behaviour or not. Clarifying policy as to what the correct behaviour should be seems to be a necessary first step. I would expect that policy would end up saying

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-23 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 11:42:31 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: I'd expect that setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on a package build should not change the resulting binary packages. It might make the build succeed despite being broken, but if it succeeds without nocheck, it should be no

Bug#786644: reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2015-05-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Guillem, I'd expect that setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on a package build should not change the resulting binary packages. It might make the build succeed despite being broken, but if it succeeds without nocheck, it should be no different when enabled. Policy is, however,