Notes from Bazaar sprint, Tuesday

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:22 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote: 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Michael Hudson
> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
> > James Westby wrote:
> >
> >>> Q. Why was the 'run' command in bzr-builder?
> >>>
> >>> A. Mainly for autotools case. Need to run 'make dist' to go from VCS ->
> >>> tarball that has to be somewhere.
> >>
> >> We could drop it if we want to require people to write new/heavily modify
> >> the packaging for daily builds.
> >
> > I don't think we want to do that, do we?
> >
> 
> Well, we also don't want to support a 'run' command. I'm not sure what to do.
I don't think the packaging would have to be heavily modified to run
autotools. It's mainly an extra build-dep and a single extra line in
debian/rules.

Another advantage in not doing this from the recipe is that the orig
tarball produced  by the recipes could stay reproducible.

Cheers,

Jelmer 
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