Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:36:23PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:07AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > binNMUs though. Aren't buildds simply there to build the existing
> > > sources on other platforms? Surely some human was involved here?
> > wanna-build and buildd have been modified a while back to be able to do
> > binNMU's. The only human involvement is when a given package is marked
> > in the database as 'requires a binNMU', and when the buildd admin later
> > signs the package, as usual.
> Would it be possible to record the name of the human that marked the
> package in debian/changelog? That would be a big help, I think (and
> hopefully avoid a discussion on debian-devel next time it happens)
Not easily, with the available tools; there's no good mapping even from a
wanna-build 'user' to a name/email, so practically speaking the user of w-b
would have to manually include their own name in the changelog entry being
specified.
> Probably requiring more work, but I wonder if it would be possible for
> the buildd -- or perhaps katie -- to verify that binNMUs don't render
> previously-installable packages uninstallable?
Well, that would be nice, but uploads of uninstallable packages have been a
problem for a long time (not just in binNMUs), and no one's implemented such
a check yet.
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