build slaves: deb8 + deb9?

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Thorsten Alteholz osmocom at alteholz.de
Thu Nov 2 18:26:45 UTC 2017


Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Neels Hofmeyr wrote:

> We currently do gerrit verifications on debian8-amd64 only. Only osmo-hlr has
> also deb9 set as build slave to test.
>
> I'd move over to deb9 now and no longer build on deb8.
> What do you guys think, should we build on both deb8 and deb9?

is there a reason why you build the packages directly on the host? 
Wouldn't it be better to build it in a chroot (for example with sbuild 
like the Debian buildd).
Thus you would be independent of the OS version of the host and could 
build for deb8, deb9, deb10, and whatever you want.

   Thorsten




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