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Re: Source only uploads?



On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:57:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > Its good for the autobuilders to check again if a package builds in a
> > > mainly minimal environment.
> > 
> > That's an argument for building it *once* in such an environment. It
> > is definitely not an argument that it should only be built in such an
> > environment, which was the point in question.
> 
> Ok, no problem. I suppose you just volunteered to fix all the bugs
> against my packages that fail due to broken dependency brought in by
> using experimental packages.

You have a significant number of such bugs? That's like standing up in
a crowded room and announcing you have a highly contagious skin
disease.

> And you also volunteer to replace the autobuilders and build _every_
> package out there by hand on _every_ architecture ?
> 
> Have you seriously thought about what you are proposing here ?

What are you talking about? I'm not the one proposing anything.

The proposal was "All packages should be built in an artificial
environment of this form". I have pointed out that this is a
braindamaged idea.

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