Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all package but java packages
> >> are usually of Architecture: all.
> >
> > That may change at some point, there have been rumblings about
> > throwing away maintainer-built packages (but still requiring them) and
> > building all packages (including arch all ones) on the buildds.
>
> That will be great because then FTBFS will be discovered sooner than
> later for arch:all packages.
> By the way, why not simply upload only source packages and let them
> get built on buildd.
This saves resources on the buildds and specially guards the slower architectures.
The main problem is that if you allow source-only uploads people will upload
packages they dont even tried to build locally. And these are often jyst buggy.
Cheers,
Michael
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