On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 05:28, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Brian May (bam@debian.org) [030817 07:05]: > > Is it still a requirement that packages must be able to build > > from source, even though they do not need to get built from source? > > When and escpecially why should that have been changed? > > And: usually the packages _are_ built from source if they are for > architecture: all, at least for all-1 architectures. You're confusing arch: any and arch: all. arch: all pacakges are rarely, if ever, rebuilt (and I don't believe they're ever rebuilt automatically). However, I agree FTBFS is a serious bug, and usually they're trivial to fix, too. If they're not... well, it's still a serious bug. Boo the webmin maintainer for thinking otherwise. I long for the day when binaryless uploads are mandatory (and this is coming from someone who's been bitten by FTBFS more than once ). -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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