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Re: On building everything from source.



On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> [Offlist]

Only not...

> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> > I would welcome something like "The maintainer
> > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed".
> 
> That is what we have now, as usual other contributors will obviously
> question decisions made where they consider them bad.
> 
> For example the firmware-linux-free maintainer chose to ship prebuilt
> firmware instead of building it from source and I strongly disagree
> with that.
[...]

The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries
can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required
cross-compilers are packaged in Debian.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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