On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:36:47PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Not with respect to the porting, I agree. Concerning the merely > building of the binary .deb files... the maintainer only needs how to > login on a remote debian system and how to invoke dpkg-buildpackage -
That is not always the case. If the machine in question doesn't have the packages necessary to satisfy your build-deps, you're SOL. Not only that, but very, very few maintainers of non-free software actually do that. > something that is known to every maintainer. And if a maintainer fails > to build .deb's for arches he doesn't run, his package will not > propagate to testing if previously his package WAS once built for that > arch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
