Re: Incomplete build depends on binary-all packages
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:09:39AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 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.
In the case of the bug which started this though, it was a binary-all
package, so no autobuilder would ever go near it (I think...).
The arguement seems to be in this case that:
- few people would rarely want to manually compile this package.
- some of these would already have the required packages installed.
=> few people would notice the bug.
=> it wouldn't affect Debians reputation.
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