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Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages



Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 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?
>
> 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? 

If the build environment has changed, that can render the package
unbuildable even if the source hasn't change.

> Makes things realy suspicious. WHat if he planted a worm in the
> package? Or accidentally shipped the wrong source?

Huh?

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