On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:00:50PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org>: > >I had always understood that rebuilding from source was a hard > >requirement. Is this not the case any more? > > > >I don't think that shipping a binary compiled upstream should be > >allowed, so where's the line drawn? > > This is an interesting question indeed. > > If it is allowed for a package in main to ship a pre-compiled JS file > with only some source files under debian/missing-sources/, it could be > tempting to use all kind of pre-compiled *.c files in a package and do > not care about a proper build process. Who cares about yaccs and > bisons?
You're thinking small. Why not ship a pre-compiled ELF, built with some paid version of ICC (screw silly sods on AMD chips like me[1]). Just think of all that saved compilation time and avoided FTBFSes on new gcc versions! Then you put a non-working dump of .c files, not necessarily the same as you compiled, without a build system, into debian/missing-sources/ then never update them. > > I have never heard of debian/missing-sources. What is the > > policy/documentation regarding this? I have repackaged tarballs many > > times to add missing sources, I did not think there was another way to > > do it! > > If I understand correctly, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this > directory is for sources of files that are in your source package, but > not in the binary. > > Example: A source package had an embedded source copy of B.min.js > (minified, non-source), but the binary package does not have it, > because A depends on libjs-B and has the right debian/links. Then you > can put the B source into As d/m-s. If B.min.js is actually used in A, > d/m-s is not sufficient. But maybe I'm on the wrong track... That's my understanding as well. [1]. ICC produces code that has different paths for different CPUs, using optimized code when some instructions are available at runtime; when the cpuid is not "GenuineIntel", it chooses a working but carefully deoptimized variant despite the CPU having instructions that it wants. -- A MAP07 (Dead Simple) raspberry tincture recipe: 0.5l 95% alcohol, 1kg raspberries, 0.4kg sugar; put into a big jar for 1 month. Filter out and throw away the fruits (can dump them into a cake, etc), let the drink age at least 3-6 months.
