Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 09:36:04AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Note that, for most developers, this is pretty much equivalent to the
> current situation with FTBFS on, say, s390 architectures.  Or even issues
> with running under whichever init system is not the one the maintainer
> personally uses.

Debian provides porter box for that purpose. This means if your package
FTBFS on s390 you can login to a s390 porter box, use sbuild to set up a
build environment, fix the problem and then check the package now build
correctly.

Now compare with reproducible build. You get some error report you
cannot reproduce, do some change following the help provided and
hope for the best. Then some day later you get the same error
report.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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