On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:25:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Le 17 avr. 08 à 13:04, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > >> IMO, that sort of misses the point. While I maintain quite a few > >> packages in Debian, the only places I run unstable/testing are in > >> one VM > >> (for testing/reproducing/fixing bugs that I cannot reproduce in > >> stable) > >> and in some chroots. The point is that I should be able to build my > >> packages inside of a pbuilder or other type of chroot, sign the > >> package > >> on my host system and be reasonably sure that my package will be > >> accepted into the archive. If the archive software breaks > >> compatibility > >> with the current stable release of (insert name of whatever tool is > >> affected, specifically devscripts in this case), then it looks bad on > >> Debian. > > > > The problem is the same with lintian, that you need to backport > > regularly. (Lintian being arch:all, of course, that's much easier). > > You do not need lintian to upload a package. You do have to sign. > Additionally, running lintian inside the chroot is trivial and does not require transporting the GPG key into the chroot.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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