]] "Bernhard R. Link" | > * Debian -- building things from the actual source is one of the core rules | | Especially for Debian maintainer mode is a big win. While it's nice if | the maintainer regulary checks that those files still work with the | current tools and submitts patches to upstream if not, doing so at every | build without reason only means a less stable build process, users | possibly not being able to recreate the package and stuff like that.
If they don't work, and we don't ship the needed auto* versions, we're effectively distributing sourceless software, which is quite problematic. It is problematic both from a legal point of view as well as from a practical/security point of view, since being able to build all parts of a package is important in order to maintain it properly. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk15q2hh....@qurzaw.linpro.no
