[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#605763: sbuild: A reproducible name for build directories, to minimize diff between logs ?

[Charles Plessy]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.60.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Roger,

I am exploring the collection build logs in the same git repository as
the source package itself. See for instance the following URL:

http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/samtools.git;a=commitdiff;h=116e19c49a20aba7acb9eee37b2e6e11e7b92ea9

(In command line, git diff --word-diff=color gives even nicer results).

I wonder if it would be possible to reduce the diff between different
builds, by having sbuild using a constant name for the build
directory. In the above example it would be just ‘/build/samtools’
instead of ‘/build/charles-samtools_0.1.12a-1-amd64-dvGJbJ/samtools-0.1.12a’.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan