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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> To be eligible for inclusion in the archive at all, even in the
> (unstable-only) SCC archive, ftpmasters have specified the following
> architecture requirements:
> 
> [...]
> 
> - binary packages must be built from the unmodified Debian source
>   (required, among other reasons, for license compliance)

Is this a simple sanity requirement (i.e. no hacked crap being uploaded to the
archive), or does it imply that all packages in base (or base + build-essential)
need to be buildable from unmodified source?

> - the port must demonstrate that they have at least 50 users

How do you demonstrate that?  Via popularity-contest?

Thanks.

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