On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38:39AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, best practice is to verify *that their packages build correctly in a > clean environment*. You nitpicker :-), but you're right, thanks for pointing it out. [1] > The easiest and most reliable way to do that is by doing the build in > such a clean environment yourself and using that build for the upload. Given the above and given that the point made by Bernhard was about testing, I believe the distinction has no impact on my arguments. > I am certainly not opposed to the current plans to do all builds on > the buildds I'm glad to hear that! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams [1] although I see very little reasons for not uploading the binaries built in the clean environment; I've surely always uploaded them ever since pbuilder has been introduced
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