by "today's engineers", do you mean "2001 engineers"? That's when sbuild[0], a tool to build deb packages in containers, was created. It was pretty innovative

by "today's engineers", do you mean "2001 engineers"? That's when sbuild[0], a tool to build deb packages in containers, was created. It was pretty innovative in that it started from clean container every time, and thus would build deb in a reliable way even if user's machine had some funky dependencies installed. (Note that was schroot containers, docker did not exist back then) [0] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sbuild/sbuild_0.91.1_changelog https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sb...