Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:36:47PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Not with respect to the porting, I agree. Concerning the merely
> building of the binary .deb files... the maintainer only needs how to
> login on a remote debian system and how to invoke dpkg-buildpackage -
That is not always the case. If the machine in question doesn't have
the packages necessary to satisfy your build-deps, you're SOL. Not only
that, but very, very few maintainers of non-free software actually do
that.
> something that is known to every maintainer. And if a maintainer fails
> to build .deb's for arches he doesn't run, his package will not
> propagate to testing if previously his package WAS once built for that
> arch.
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