Bug#490935: pbuilder: Impement to ensure that clean after build is working

[Loïc Minier]

        Hey,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> Per http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt a release goal is double
> compilation support, and one step to ensure that is to verify that clean
> works. When doing an normal dpkg-buildpackage, you can pass the
> parameter -tc to clean the directory after build, but when building
> under a pbuild environment, no such posibillity exists (Probably because
> of the reasoning as it will be deleted anyway, so no clean is required).

 You mean passing "--debbuildopts -tc" doesn't work?

> But though Policy section 4.9 specifies that clean must be able to restore,
> many developers miss to check clean after build as they often build in
> pbuilder environments, and the only way to check that is to do an normal
> build, which might miss other things instead.
> 
> Even trhough it will take some CPU cycles more, my advice is to clean
> in the chroot by default.

 I don't think pbuilder needs to divert from dpkg-buildpackage here;
 just like nothing runs lintian by default, some configuration is needed
 for stricter QA with pbuilder.  I think that's fine, but perhaps we
 could offer a "paranoiac" or "strict" or "qa" pbuilder config which
 would enable lintian, clean after build etc.  I think this is more
 something wishlist / nice to have than a defect in pbuilder though -- I
 do understand why you want to use the lever though.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier