On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:53:48PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > - Architecture: all packages would not get built > > > > Well, we just need an arch: all autobuilder and that's it, or one of the > > autobuilders building the arch: all stuff. > > Feel free to set up one.
I feel like I am missing something here. Could you explain "Architecture: all packages would not get built"? Is the problem with binary arch independent packages? > > The reason why source only uploads (or binary uploads where the binary > > part is ignored) are good, is that they limit the errors that may be > > introduced by the DD build environment, which may be a bit more than > > just sid. Like when you have XFree86 4.3.0 experimental packages > > installed for example. > > The reason why source only uploads are bad, is that they encourage bad > practice such as people not checking the build. By requiring at least > one binary package, we ensure the package can at least be built. That's > a good thing, since it saves time otherwise wasted on packages failing > to build because the maintainer didn't even bother to test. > > I have less problems with the second part of your suggestion ("binary > uploads where the binary part is ignored"), as long as it's not so > time-consuming that becomes a problem (which I'm afraid is likely to be > the case). "binary uploads where the binary part is ignored" sounds very good. I don't expect problems related to "time-consuming" since most binary uploads are for x86 these days and x86 autobuilder cpu time should not be very hard to find. > > And if we are going to use experimental more and more, like aj > > suggested, this is going to be more and more of a problem in the future. > > Since experimental isn't autobuilt, I fail to see your point. It believe he means that dd are more likely to have experimental packages installed on their systems and thus upload broken binary packages. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. -- Yogi Berra