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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Westby wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> Thanks for writing this.
> 
> On Tue Oct 06 20:48:41 +0100 2009 Julian Edwards wrote:
>>   * The button will create a job request to run `bzr builddeb` or equivalent.
> 
> The "or equivalent" here may need a little bit of discussion. I think I know
> what that would look like, but it needs to meet LP and IS' requirements.
> 
> In my head it is bzr-builddeb without the bits that arbitrarily download
> things from the net, and the "hooks" that run extra code. The former because
> that's the rule for PPAs, 

Maybe it's not super user friendly, but this code doesn't need to be
removed, does it?  Any attempt to download a file from the net will fail
in the environment we're talking about.

> and the latter because that can require extra
> dependencies that we have no way of specifying and so installing.

Argh, that's a point that hadn't occurred to me.
Meta-build-dependencies? :-)

Cheers,
mwh