hi,

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 18:41 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote:
> 
>>Hey,
>>
>>On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:53 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>>
>>>Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>But not again during the scrollkeeper registration time ;)  "make
>>>distcheck" is good enough, but developers have to get used to this
>>>target.
>>
>>There should be a fundamental rule of GNOME that a package must pass a
>>make distcheck before it can be considered for distribution.  If
>>something doesn't pass, it should be considered a bug, a report filed
>>and an older package used.
> 
> 
> Every single piece of maintainer documentation I know of says
> to build your tarballs with distcheck.  I don't roll tarballs
> with the dist target, and neither should anybody else.
> 
> On multiple occasions, I've found non-valid DocBook files in
> rolled tarballs.  So clearly, there are people making tarballs
> with just dist.  Maybe the release team should run distcheck,
> and refuse tarballs (loudly and publicly, on d-d-l) that don't
> pass.
> 

help is on its way:
http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade

It works nicely for the gstreamer project already.

Stefan
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