Re: Source only uploads and other questions
Hi Lisandro,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I'm about to start pushing Qt 5.6.1 to jessie-backports and I would like
> to make some questions about the current state of backports.
>
> * Are source-only uploads allowed? If so:
Source+all is allowed, source-only is not (so jessie-backports mirrors
the behaviour of jessie, AFAIU).
> - What happens to packages that are new for jessie-backports? (for example,
> the first upload of the new source).
Any package that has to go through NEW, whether in the main archive or
backports, must be binary uploads.
> - Some parts of the Qt stack which are arch:all depend on tools built from
> arch:any in some later submodules. In other words: in unstable we upload for
> example qtbase and let the arch:all packages be unable to build until
> src:qttools is built. Can I do the same here?
Buildd behaviour should be identical across all archives, so yes (I think).
> * Is it possible to binNMU stuff in jessie and make it part of jessie-
> backports or is it necessary to do a full upload? My idea is to binNMU/upload
> some KDE/Plasma stuff from stable so users can use the Qt backport, as it
> brings many bugfixes and there are too many changes for a stable proposed
> upload.
Jessie and jessie-backports are two entirely different suites, so no,
you cannot binNMU packages in jessie with the expectation that jessie
buildds will install build-deps from jessie-backports.
Regards,
Vincent
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