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Should binaries be build during package build? Network split due to different underlying libraries? #10

Closed adrelanos closed 5 years ago

adrelanos commented 5 years ago

After bitcoin existing for more than 10 years, being popular and being in Debian unstable (sid) it still never made its way into Debian testing.

Reason being explained that a difference in underlying libraries (even just security fixes) may result in a network split.

Binaries compiled during packaging on different versions of Debian and/or Ubuntu might have different libraries that might cause that.

References: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bitcoin-qt https://packages.debian.org/sid/bitcoin-qt

Discussion by Debian developers: upstream does not support stable releases (block migration to testing)

(Note: above website saying Tags: fixed-upstream is probably a mistake as discussion at bottom says.)

solardiz commented 5 years ago

Are you asking this in context of building the miner or core or both? You've opened the issue for the miner, so I'll reply for the miner: there's absolutely no such risk.

And yes, binaries should be built during package build.

solardiz commented 5 years ago

Regarding core, my answer would be more complicated.

adrelanos commented 5 years ago

I like the approach of discussion things separately. So created https://github.com/ResistancePlatform/resistance-core/issues/71 for it.

solardiz commented 5 years ago

I think this issue is fully discussed for the miner, and can be closed.