Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 ? 22:11 +0300, Marius Gedminas a ?crit : > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:26:07PM +0000, Steve Greenland wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > IIRC Ubuntu has source-only uploads. This seems to work for them. Same for Mandriva ;) -- Fr?d?ric Crozat
