Re: why is it not moving to testing
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:18:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> No, of course it doesn't. It guarantees that it built once on one
> architecture with one set of debs installed. Which is better than
> nothing, and, really, all you can reasonably ask a maintainer to
> demonstrate.
You are all starting from the assumption that the availability of
source-only uploads implies that maintainers will stop building the
packages before uploading.
That's wrong.
Random reasons why one would like to do source-only uploads:
* I have less to upload
* Packages are actually built will the most recent releases of their
build-dependencies -- on all architectures
* Avoid the stupid "binary-all packages exist in the archive but
they can't be actually build from sources" situation
* We know we distribute .deb's _actually_ build from sources (well,
this requires _every single upload_ to be source-only -- but
that's a different problem)
Yes, you can set up a chroot in your home box. Sometimes you don't
have the time, the space, the bandwidth or a combination of these.
This, of course, does nothing against the "packages don't build
_anymore_" problem, but that's a different issue.
--
Marcelo
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