On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:49:17PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Roberto writes: > > Debian policy requires that all packages be built on Debian autobuilders > > (there are rare exceptions, but they are extremely few) > > There is no such policy. Debian maintainers build their packages on their > own machines and then upload them. > True. Perhaps that was poorly stated. The requirement is that all packages *can* be built on an autobuilder. You are correct that there are binary uploads. There is also some non-free stuff which is not built at all since it is distributed in binary form.
Of course, even if Debian decided to accept the binaries provided by Mozilla, that would necessitate architectures which are not supported by Mozilla. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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