Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > source-only uploads > ------------------- > After some discussion about this, there are two opinions within the > ftp-team about this matter. Given that other distros experience has > shown that allowing source only uploads results in a huge loss of > quality checks and an increased load on the buildds from packages > FTBFSing everywhere, Is there any quantitative evidence of this, or is it purely anecdotal? I guess this is mostly based on the Ubuntu experience, where it was a cause for grumbling early in Ubuntu's history that people were uploading completely untested packages and causing problems, but I'm not sure that this is a significant problem in Ubuntu today; I think packages in Ubuntu are at least as likely to FTBFS because of either skew between the archive and the set of packages being tested with (which is a problem that will affect Debian as well) or because the package has been imported from Debian in an unbuildable state (which points to a latent FTBFS bug in Debian). I'm not asserting that this problem is *not* significant, I simply don't know - and am interested in knowing if anyone has more data on this beyond some four-year-old anecdotes. Certainly, Debian with its wider range of ports is more likely to run into problems because of this than Ubuntu, and so will need to be fairly cautious. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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