Re: Building from source required?

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Marco d'Itri:

> It is not mandatory to fully rebuild a package every time the Debian
> binary package is generated, and in some cases it may be impractical
> and undesirable, but the following issues must be considered:

> - the package must contain source for all components, otherwise it would
>   need to be uploaded to non-free
> - the main Debian archive must contain all the tools needed to fully
>   rebuild the package from source, otherwise it would need to be
>   uploaded to contrib
> - the release manager (and probably the security team as well) must be
>   comfortable with the result

And the package should state *which* tool is required to rebuild the
package. 8-/