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

[Carl Fürstenberg]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 23:49, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:
>        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?

That was a miss from my part, I read that as debuild options, and not
options passable to dpkg-buildpackage.
>
>> 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
>

Hehe, true that's it's not an defect in pbuilder, the problem lies in
the view of pbuilder, that if a package builds in a clean chroot
environment, then all is good, I wonder how many execute pdebuild as
 pdebuild --debuildopts "--lintian -tc --linitan-opts
\"--show-overrides --info\""


On an other note: As debuild runs linitan per default, shouldn't
pdebuild also run linitan per default?

Note 2: manpage for pdebuild says " --debbuildopts [dpkg-buildpackage
options]", should it be dpkg-buildpackage options or debuild options?

-- 
/Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth at gmail.com>