James Troup wrote: > Who said they were bad? You did. A few days ago you agreed that bin-only NMU's were not ideal. I can't dig it up right now.
> They are very rarely necessary however, since > 99.5% of the time (the only exception I know of is Hartmut's packages) > i386 packages are already compiled for i386 and don't need to be > compiled by someone other than the maintainer. That's when > binary-only-NMUs occur on non-i386. Plenty of people rebuild i386 stuff from scratch for various reasons. Lars Wirenzious autobuilds i386. Joe User/Developer will occasionally extract a package's source and build it from scratch. That doesn't make it right for those people to do i386 binary only NMU's to fix clean-buiild bugs, does it? [ snip remainder of flamage] Please, calm down. -- see shy jo
