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Re: why is it not moving to testing



On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:18:20PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> * You must upload a binary package along with a source package.
>   Source only packages are not allowed to enforce the rule that
>   packages must build successfully.  The feeling is that people abuse
>   source only uploads by uploading broken and unbuildable packages.
>   Therefore forcing a binary upload proves the package is buildable at
>   least somewhere.

binary uploads could still be broken, if for instance it was compiled
with obsolete libraries...
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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