On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:59:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thibaut Girka wrote: > > > * However, it would involve some additional scripting/manual intervention > > to prevent cross-built libs to be uploaded. This can be fixed before the end > > of the GSoC, and it hopefully will be. > > Is that even desirable? If the cross-building rules are correct, a > cross-built library is just as functional as, say, a library built > "natively" on a qemu-emulated target machine with > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck, right? Yes, it should be. But we're talking about things like libgcc, being cross-built as part of the cross-compiler build process. Such binary packages shouldn't be built, or at least not by default: they should already be in the archive, and the cross-compiler upload would be rejected. > I'd think that it would be enough to make sure the policies are clear > for human beings and people running autobuilders. > > Thanks, > Jonathan
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