Buildd's and pbuilder provide differing results

[James Westby]

On Mon Oct 12 23:33:51 +0100 2009 Charlie Smotherman wrote:
> I recently requested a sync of rlpr from debian to correct a FTBFS.
> 
> The package however FTBFS on the official ubuntu buildd's.
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rlpr/2.05-4/+build/1288660/+files/buildlog_
> ubuntu-karmic-i386.rlpr_2.05-4_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

This is due to some extra checks/operations that are performed on the buildds.
These handle various things, such as translations here.

You can enable these checks in your pbuilder by installing the package
pkgbinarymangler in your pbuilder chroots.

I'm not a great fan of having this special behaviour there, but it does have
some nice properties, such as not having to cary deltas purely for
extracting translations.

Thanks,

James