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[Nick Weedon <1436661@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I appreciate that some people prefer the notion of compiling everything
from source, like on Gentoo Linux, but on Ubuntu can we please follow
the standard packaging practice and have binaries in binary packages?

This seems to be the package creation workflow for this package:

Compile Source Package => Binary Package => Source that must be compiled
by the user

If it is felt that it is absolutely mandatory to not provide binaries
then why not provide a 'proper' source package that is consistent with
other source packages. That is to say, one which allows you to actually
build the real binary package.

** Affects: gtest (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Inconsistent with Ubuntu package management

Status in gtest package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I appreciate that some people prefer the notion of compiling
  everything from source, like on Gentoo Linux, but on Ubuntu can we
  please follow the standard packaging practice and have binaries in
  binary packages?

  This seems to be the package creation workflow for this package:

  Compile Source Package => Binary Package => Source that must be
  compiled by the user

  If it is felt that it is absolutely mandatory to not provide binaries
  then why not provide a 'proper' source package that is consistent with
  other source packages. That is to say, one which allows you to
  actually build the real binary package.

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