"Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem seems to be that most uploads are done with i386 packages, > so they seldom get built there. How about we switch Debian to > source-only uploads while we're at it (as opposed to the current > architecture upload)?
This is a long-standing debate on debian-devel. Ubuntu went that way, I think. Some people are strongly in favor of it, and others are worried that source-only uploads will result in more build failures and more work for the buildd admins by making it much easier to upload packages that don't build at all. (It also means that all arch-independent packages would have to be built somewhere, but that's probably a minor implementation detail.) It's one of those debates that's been going on for years and never reaches any firm consensus, and hence nothing ever changes. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
