Bug#780729: Bug#780725: PATH used for building is not specified

[Thibaut Paumard]

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:58:10 +0100 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
wrote:
> clone 780724 -1
> reassign -1 pbuilder
> severity -1 serious
> retitle -1 pbuilder must defines PATH as in debian-policy (and as on buildds)
> # justification: breaks package builds, see 780724

I challenge this justification. Also I'm not going to downgrade it
myself, pbuilder should not be removed from jessie just because of this
bug, this is just not a reasonable possible outcome.

I don't think that "serious" is the right severity. This bug does not
provoke FTBFS on the auto-builders and it remains possible to build the
package by invoking dpkg-buildpackage by hand. The fact that pbuilder
fails to build a certain package does not means that if breaks the build
of this package.

Besides,

> > In any case, policy currently has:
> > 
> > 10.10. File names
> > -----------------
> > 
> >      The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system PATH
> >      (namely `/bin', `/sbin', `/usr/bin', `/usr/sbin' and `/usr/games')
> >      must be encoded in ASCII.

This section is intended to mean that file names in these directory must
be encoded in ASCII. I find it contrived to use this section as a
definition of a the PATH that should be used for building.

Kind regards, Thibaut.


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