Re: The Debian Mentors Project
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 09:33:50PM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> Appropos of this and Colin's statement, my suggestion is to make only a
> deb-src URL available on the site, and to only host source packages. For
> packages destined for the Debian archive, it's critical that they be
> reviewed as source, and that they build from source. I do a fair amount
> of sponsoring, and never have need for a binary of the package being
> sponsored.
As a long-time sponsor of a few people and packages (but nothing like
the tmancill sponsor/advocate machine) I'd have to agree with Tony.
I only use the tar.gz, diff and dsc from my sponsors. So the deb-src
is a good idea.
- Craig
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