On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:04:48 +0100, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:48:15 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Certainly, though, being unable to build a package twice is a bug
>> that should be reported against that package. (I actually don't
>> know if any of my packages have this problem; some of them have so
>> many build dependencies that I always build them in pbuilder chroot.
>> Hm.)
> I agree with you to ask all package maintainers to add a policy
> compliant "clean target". I'm not sure about the severity
> "serious", see above.
When doing development, or making modifications to a package,
a user may often make a change, compile, clean, make another change,
and build again.
If the package, as shipped, does not permit such workflows, we
are violating a principle tenet of free software. Such bugs are
certainly serious, I would suggest they should be deemed release
critical, since they go against the grain of what we are supposed to
stand for.
Debian is about more than just delivering a no cost binary
distribution to uncaring desktop end users. We are a free software
distribution, the free standing for freedom, and the freedom to
tweak, expand, modify, and, fer gawds sake, *REBUILD* the package
after doing so.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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