Re: On building everything from source.
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Paul Wise wrote:
> > the unpredictability of when a source package goes to NEW (that is,
> > when the list of binary packages changes),
>
> That is entirely predictable and under the control of the Debian
> package maintainer since it only changes when the maintainer updates
> debian/control.
What's unpredictable is that your package might be refused not for the
addition of the NEW binary but for because debian/copyright is not good
enough for current standards of the ftpmasters while it was ok at the time
it got accepted the first time (or maybe because it had not been
correctly updated after some upstream changes).
That's still holding back progress on the packaging for useless reasons.
Instead this should be turned into a (potentially serious) bug.
Cheers,
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