On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:32:16PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Nov 23, 2012, at 03:06 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > >you always need to build for one arch and test, then why not upload it? > > I think there are a lot of good reasons to do source-only uploads, even when > you should be building locally for testing purposes. > > * Reproducibility - buildds provide a more controlled environment than > developers' machines. [snip] > * Testability - Is there any guarantee that a package's tests have been run > during the local build process? [snip]
These both would be provided by throwing away the built component and rebuilding in a closed environment, which is (I believe) the current thinking of the best way forward. Neil --
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