also sprach Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> [2009.05.09.1842 +0200]: > There are advantages to using tarballs. Whether they outweigh the > convenience of building directly from VCS is certainly up for > debate (and has been debated many times on Fedora devel list, > among other places ;-)
Pointers always welcome. ;) > One of the reasons I remember as actually having validity was that > tarballs have a large test base vs an SCM snapshot. (Even if you > build from a tag, you have to depend on upstream having tagged the > correct version that actually got into the tarball). Isn't this something the maintainer could quickly check? Also, are you sure of the large test base? The most important package I maintain is mdadm, and I don't know a single person who uses it directly, other than through Doug's or my packages. I admit I don't know any !(Fedora||Debian*) users though, except for upstream himself, who uses OpenSuse. mdadm ist Linux-only, the whole picture changes when you think about something like postfix. However, do you think that those folks who rebuild their software for every upstream release are really going to be a better test base than a new postfix package with 10 days to survive in Debian unstable (or the same concept for other distros)? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "it usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- mark twain
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