On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:21:10PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:12:52PM -0700, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > > Just how important is it that a package be created on a box running sid? > > I'm currently running sarge, and would like to package a program myself > > instead of waiting for somebody else, but I'm not sure I want to start > > running sid just so I can do that. > You don't have to be running sid, you just have to be fairly sure the > package builds and runs in sid. No, you also have to be sure that the package that is being uploaded to the archive *was* built on sid, not just that it could have been. For sponsored uploads, this is usually not an issue, since the sponsor ought to be doing a rebuild from source before uploading. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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