On Nov 23, 2012, at 03:06 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: >you always need to build for one arch and test, then why not upload it? I think there are a lot of good reasons to do source-only uploads, even when you should be building locally for testing purposes. * Reproducibility - buildds provide a more controlled environment than developers' machines. This means that it's less likely that some local environmental factor creeps into your binary packages, or is silently relied upon to produce a successful build. * Testability - Is there any guarantee that a package's tests have been run during the local build process? I think it's a good thing to enable more packages tests (e.g. through dh_auto_tests or DEP 8 tests), so ensuring that DEP 8 tests for example are always run before the package is published is, IMO a good thing. Cheers, -Barry
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