Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 20:55 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> On 09/28/2015 08:40 PM, Sam Gleske wrote:
>
> > FUTURE:
> > Even when I maintain the build system at build.gimp.org there's
> > regularly a
> > "works for me" statement when the build system fails but it passes
> > on a
> > developers laptop.  These challenges hinder progress when having a
> > repeatable build environment would solve these issues.
>
> GIMP developers use Debian Testing, with the assumption that is
> anything
> is present there, then a GIMP build can require it.

I hope that nobody uses debian testing, the most unstable of
all debians :) Testing is simply a rule we use to figure what we
can depend on, nothing more. We needed some rule and made one.

Regards,
Mitch