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 _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
