• ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I am afraid we are talking about different things. Recently I had to report a broken package to a repository. The problem was that they mapped a path to the incorrect directory.

    The software compiled and worked correctly, but some specific functionality which needed to read data from that directory was broken.

    I do not think there is a way to prevent this kind of errors.

      • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        In normal repos they also test their packages. I do not think it is possible in any distribution repo to ship a binary which did not compile. Dynamic library linking may have some problems I guess, but unless you’re using arch that is generally never a real problem with package manager installations. I have never got a package which plain does not run.