On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Jonathan Hseu wrote: > > - Wouldn't the binaries be more trusted if they came from auto-builders anyways? > > So that way a maintainer can't just stick something in there that's not in the > > source code. > I would rather have the original upload be a binary one. I trust this more, > as the maintainer has more likely installed what he has just built, and tested > it out. No such assurance happens with a source only upload. Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to detect build time errors that don't show up on my own system (missing build deps, for example). -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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