On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:47:25PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Local testing is nowhere as good as testing a package gets by being installed by people running unstable. And we have had myriad example of developers not being good at testing all possible code paths, or evedn installing packages; having libraries that several packages depend on getting pushed into testing untested except on the developers machine would, in my opinion, seriously destabilize testing.
I don't expect that it would be tested on only the maintainer's machine. Local compiles can be done by anyone who feels like doing them. Somepeople really get off on compiling stuff--just look at gentoo.
Mike Stone