Re: Can we upload binaries using libc6 to hamm yet?

[Thomas Koenig <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

David Engel wrote:

>I can sympathize with Thomas' situation, but let's be realistic.  How
>many other developers will be in similar situations?  I doubt the
>number will justify the work required to build the extra packages or
>the confusion they will cause.

Would anybody like to write an FAQ on "Reasons not to become a Debian
deveolper?"

R1:  You need root access to a machine in order to create a *.deb
     file.

R2:  You need to do a significant amount of work as root, which you
     may not like to do.

Now, proposed:

R3:  Compiling Debian packages is impossible on a machine that
     anybody is doing serious work on, because you need to break
     compilation for everybody else while you do it.

I detect more than a trace of single-user mindset here.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.


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