On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:53:17AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:51:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > >>> I (and I'm sure others) would be very grateful if someone who would not > >>> mind building the above packages on their own hppa machine could upload > >>> them, as was apparently done with cernlib [4]. > >> Note that circumventing the buildds can mean that your package won't be > >> security supported on that architecture... > > > > hmm.. I am not understanding why. Usually every upload has binary stuff > > for at aleast one arch, i386/amd64 being the most popular upload arches. > > This means that i386/amd54 ports are not security supported? > > You might want to reread what I wrote...
ok, I expressed badly, I am sure i386/amd64 uploads are security supported. I am concerned by your "circumventing the buildds _can_ mean that..". > Besides that normally the maintainer of a package is trusted to be able > to test the package on the architecture(s) he is uploading... but this should not have any impact on the security stuff, right? dom -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
