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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 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?

But then, popularity-contest installation per default was dropped for
debian-installer rc3, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther