On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 06:07:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
The binary is needed because otherwise the -all packages would be missing and there would be no deb package in the archive holding the source in.
That's an implementation issue, not an absolute. An alternate implementation would be for all autobuilders to build -all packages, but for only the first to be accepted. Mike Stone