Hi, On 26/10/16 12:05, Santiago Vila wrote: > Greetings. > > I have been asked to backport gettext for jessie. > The backport is almost ready: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841259 > > I would like to upload it in source-only form. > Will that work? Source only uploads do not work for jessie-backports as it has no arch:all buildd, but uploads with arch:all but not arch:any packages included should work. > I tried to answer this myself but the wiki page does > not explicitly say anything about backports: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SourceOnlyUpload > > It says: > > "NEW uploads and uploads with NEW binaries currently cannot be source-only." > > How is such rule exactly applied for backports? The first time a > backport is uploaded for jessie-backports is considered a NEW upload? As far as I know, source only uploads to NEW are not allowed anywhere (including backports-new). Any package which is not in jessie-backports yet is NEW. James
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