From e6a1462539e3f8feecbd6e88728cbae06f920c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boyuan Yang
The Debian distribution supports quite a -few architectures, but the package maintainers usually only -compile binary versions for a single architecture they have access to -(usually i386 or amd64). The other builds are produced automatically, -ensuring that every package is only built once. Failures are tracked +
+The autobuilder network provides a secure package building +functionality for all supported architectures. +The Debian distribution supports quite a +few architectures, and the package maintainers often do not have +access to all machines with needed architectures. On the other hand, +Debian now requires ordinary binary packages to be generated from the +source code in a controlled build environment (via the source-only upload +requirement) to avoid the introduction of maliciously-crafted +binary packages by human developers. The autobuilder network takes +the package source code and build binary packages automatically, +once for each supported hardware architecture. Failures are tracked in the autobuilder database.
-As Debian/m68k (the first non-Intel port) started, developers for +The autobuilder network also eases the work of Debian Ports maintainers. +When Debian/m68k (the first non-Intel port) started, developers for it had to watch out for new versions of packages and recompile them if they wanted to stay up-to-date with the Intel distribution. All this was done manually: developers watched the upload mailing list for -- cgit v1.2.3