[Reproducible-builds] [Debian Wiki] Update of "ReproducibleBuilds" by Lunar

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Thu Sep 25 19:25:56 UTC 2014


Hi Daniel,

On Donnerstag, 25. September 2014, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why do we not need to run tests when rebuilding?

to speed up things when building hundreds of packages, as 
https://jenkins.debian.net/view/reproducible does :)

> The
> r-b process *is* changing the way things are built and occasionally
> tweaking files after they're built.  Why wouldn't we want to run the
> tests in this case?

hmm.. I'm pondering to re-enable the tests. They should eat <10% of the build 
time only anyway...


cheers,
	Holger

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