[xml/sgml] [RFS] libxml2 new release

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:01:10PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> cvs-buildpackage first does an export and then does the whole build in there.

That is also what svn-buildpackage does, except that it also runs
debian/rules clean first on the work tree.

> That to me is a better approach, since that's also what happens on buildd's
> and when someone wants to build it on their own machines from the source
> package and diff package.  Now you run the risk of things working in your
> svn area but not in a clean build environment (I know we have pbuilder for
> that but still).

Well, the only difference i see in the 2 approaches is that in the case
of svn, you ensure that the repository contains the same as the
orig.tar.gz + diff.gz files.

Mike