On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:34:56PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 08:19:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Are we trying to force users to use binary packages that even the > > maintainer of the package has not tried to install/run ? > > We do all the time. I expect the majority of the packages on the > machine I'm typing this on have not been installed or run by the > maintainer - but I guess that's what I get for using PowerPC.
At least the architecture-independent parts, like the postinst scripts, should have been run by somebody, which is a useful check. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]