This one time, at band camp, Wesley J. Landaker said: > On Friday 09 February 2007 17:02, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I am sure qemu is very good at what it does, but I do not have faith > > that it can stand in for a real CPU in all the corner cases. If > > Aurelien builds a java package that had previously FTBFS'd, do we have > > any guarantee that it will build natively? How is the security team > > supposed to support that? > > On the other hand, I can *currently* upload my own packages as src+bin with > a binary I built inside qemu and no one would ever be the wiser. > > I don't see much difference in that respect, unless you are arguing for > src+bin uploads with sources autorebuild on *all* architectures (which > incidentally, I believe I would be all for). Of course you can, and it would be difficult to prove unless something really obvious and bizarre happened in the build. I hope we can trust most developers not to actively try to undermine the quality of the distribution this way. The 'autobuild for all arches' is a persuasive one, but it's not the focus of this GR, so I'm going to let it go for now. We have a long flamewar ahead of us, and there's no need to rush it into new ground before we've thoroughly beaten this horse to death. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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