Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > * Arto Jantunen <vi...@debian.org>, 2013-05-03, 11:12: >> Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with >> maintainers not even build testing their packages. > > [citation needed]
Indeed. I was fairly certain that a policy decision about this was made at some point around ten years ago, but after a bit of searching it seems to me that this isn't actually the case. In 2001 AJ listed a bunch of technical reasons why source only uploads can't currently be done ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2001/01/msg00000.html ). After that the next relevant mail seems to be the fairly recent https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/11/msg00001.html from Ganneff. My own (grep-friendly) d-d-a archive only goes back to 2002 so it's possible that there was another relevant mail in between, but my google-fu simply isn't strong enough to find it.. I find it hilarious that we seem to have been waiting for a couple of rather minor technical fixes for the past 12 years or so. -- Arto Jantunen -- 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/87sj23qk0f....@iki.fi
