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Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED



On 11/10/05, Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> wrote:
>
> [Josselin Mouette]
> > I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used
> > to be accepted in the past.
>
> It's the first line of defense against people uploading things that
> don't build, wasting various infrastructure resources.

Shouldn't that be dealt with by having the infrastructure first deal
with packages that have already been build on other architectures?

> Perhaps what you need is for someone to set up an autobuilder queue
> that doesn't upload packages but just returns them to you somehow, with
> logs, so you can sign and upload yourself.  Of course this autobuilder
> queue should be under control of Debian developers, lest we have
> another round of flames about uploading untrusted binaries.

I think it has been suggested before to simply route the uploaded
binaries to /dev/null and rebuild anyway.

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