[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#774415: sbuild: please add the srebuild sbuild wrapper to reproduce builds

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Benjamin Drung (2015-04-13 15:23:59)
> I briefly looked at the code and the man page of your script. I like the idea
> to extent the sbuild package to support rebuilds. The implementation of
> srebuild is very fine-tuned to one use case and will break if you violate one
> of the constrains. I would prefer an implementation that is more flexible and
> doesn't require soo many conditions.

I understand.

> My idea would be to add an option to sbuild to provide a buildinfo file.
> When this file is provided, sbuild will adjust the build dependencies to
> depend on exactly the package versions that are in the buildinfo file and
> tries to install these versions.

This sounds like a very good idea.

> This way you just have to make sure that you have the package versions
> somewhere available in your sources.list. Then you just need a thin wrapper
> around sbuild that feeds additional snapshot.debian.org sources entries into
> sbuild.
> 
> In case you keep old versions in your package repository (e.g. when you
> use reprepro with multiple version management [bug #570623]), you could
> simply use sbuild without any modifications.

I agree with your plan but I don't have much time right now so nobody should be
stopped from implementing it before I get to it :)

cheers, josch
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