On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:44:06 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Apr 10, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > > To put it simply: no, you should build everything from source, and not > > using pre-compiled code (yes, minified scripts can be (and actually are) > > considered as pre-compiled code...). > You should, but this is not mandatory. > What is mandatory is being able to rebuild everything from source with > tools available in Debian (main), but in some cases there are valid > reasons to not do it every time the package is being built.
An example that comes to mind is the firmware-linux-free package. It would be impractical to rebuild so many toolchains just to make the package.
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