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> Do Debian contributors just upload a binary blob to the Debian servers and that's it?

The practice has either been eliminated or curtailed but, yes, this was done for a long time.

Curtailed... "Source-only uploads" (the term to Google for) are not required. I suspect they are not even the norm due to not being the defaults for various tools, etc.

Thanks for the clarification. My impression as a Debian user was that it had been mostly curtailed.

It doesn't matter too much... you either trust your contributors or you don't. But it's still a bit icky.

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