pbuilder twice in a row option

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 05/08/08 at 22:42 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:41, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Nicolas Valcarcel wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 	I've just write a --build-twice-in-a-row feature for pbuilder that
> >
> > Rather than try to build twice, shouldn't you just make a copy, build,
> > then run the clean rule and diff with the copy?  Even if the package
> > manages to build a second time after cleaning, that doesn't necessarily
> > mean the clean rule is not broken.
> 
> I asked for the feature to make it easier to see if a package supports one of 
> Debian Lenny's release goals:
> 
> http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt
> 
> # double compilation support
>   Advocate: Martin Zobel-Helas and Luk Claes
>   Description: All packages should be able to be built twice in a
>    row.
>   Bug-User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
>   Bug-Tag: qa-doublebuild
>   Bug-Url: 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org&tag=qa-doublebuild
>   State: confirmed

Actually, when filing those bugs, I also debdiffed the result of the
first and second builds, and filed serious bugs if there was a
difference.

So having the possibility to debdiff the results would be interesting,
yes.
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