Re: Incomplete build depends on binary-all packages

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

>  b) A package that no one but the maintainer can build from source is
>     a different beast than a package that does not build unless one has
>     the right packages installed. The former is RC, and rightly so,
>     the latter ought not to be (even though it is still a bug that
>     needs fixing).

That seems rational, however, a criterion for releasing the package
should be that binaries do in fact exist on all the supported
platforms.

So if the no-build bug is causing failures on the autobuilders, the
maintainer needs to either

  1) fix the bug
  2) upload a binary himself for the other arch

Failing one of those, it *is* RC, it seems to me.

Thomas