Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 22:11 +0300, Marius Gedminas a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:26:07PM +0000, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > According to James Sparenberg  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30:34 Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > > I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects sourceless packages.
> > >
> > >    I would hope that they reject binary packages period, in that like 
> > > every 
> > > distro I've worked with you submit a src (rpm deb tgz etc) and the distro 
> > > builds from that file so that at least some assurance can be made that 
> > > it's 
> > > build from the correct environment.  
> > 
> > Actually, Debian requires a binary upload of at least one architecture.
> > Then the autobuilders build for all the other architectures.
> > 
> > About once a year someone proposes source-only uploads. The argument
> > against is that with a binary upload, you have at least some hope that
> > the developer has installed and tested the package. With source-only
> > uploads, there the temptation to make "just one little change" and
> > upload without building and testing.
> 
> IIRC Ubuntu has source-only uploads.  This seems to work for them.

Same for Mandriva ;)

-- 
Frédéric Crozat 
_______________________________________________
maemo-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Reply via email to