According to James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org>:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30:34 Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects sourceless packages.
> >
> > Marius Gedminas
>
> Marius,
>
> I would hope that they reject binary packages period, in that like every
> distro I've worked with you submit a src (rpm deb tgz etc) and the distro
> builds from that file so that at least some assurance can be made that it's
> build from the correct environment.
Actually, Debian requires a binary upload of at least one architecture.
Then the autobuilders build for all the other architectures.
About once a year someone proposes source-only uploads. The argument
against is that with a binary upload, you have at least some hope that
the developer has installed and tested the package. With source-only
uploads, there the temptation to make "just one little change" and
upload without building and testing.
Maintaining an auto-build system is non-trivial.
Regards,
Steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
