On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080112 11:41]:
That's exactly the point: at the moment, source-only uploads are
REJECTED. You have to provide at least the binaries for one
architecture.
Interesting. Is there a reason for this policy, or is it just
historical?
Sorry if this sounds rude: But how have you tested this package when
you did not have a binary package built in a suiteable environment
available?
Just to be clear, I did have the binary package built, and I did test it.
And if you have this package, why did you not include it?
I didn't want to include it because I don't want to treat the i386
architecture specially, especially not in what I see as worse. Users of
the other architectures get packages built by a clean build environment
maintained by a debian.org sysadmin, and they can read buildd logs.
So I rebuilt the package as a source-only upload after testing the binary
package and uploaded just that in the hopes of getting the i386 package
built by a buildd also. (The thread at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00760.html was good
reading for me to understand others' arguments in this.)
-- Asheesh.
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