Autodetecting insufficiently hardened builds (was: New hardened build support (coming) in F16)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Unless the checking is part of autoqa this simply isn't 
> > sufficient. There's a huge benefit to implementing it in the way that's 
> > easiest for maintainers.
> 
> The earlier a problem is detected, the cheaper it is to fix. If I have 
> understood AutoQA right, it gets involved only after I submit a package to 
> updates-testing. Even better, when possible, is to detect problems during the 
> build, so that I notice them when I test-build locally and can fix them before 
> I even commit the changes to Git. Some checks are already done at build time, 
> and Steve's points 1, 2 and 4 look like they should be possible to detect at 
> build time too.

Checking at build time is a developer aid, but doesn't prevent mistakes 
from slipping into the distribution. Having both would certainly be 
helpful.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org