Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:06:57AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> GPL (is this GPL?) basically says you have to ship the source that was
> used to build the package. But if the source doesn't build how can
> that be the right source? Makes things realy suspicious. WHat if he

Depends on the nature of the bug, of course - you're allowed to ship C
programs without a C compiler in the distribution, for example.  Not
that this detracts from the need for packages to be buildable from
source.

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