Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:44:18PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
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>
> While I like the "source + trow away" solution, I'd also like to ask
> you to please consider some methods to allow the "throw away" step on
> the developer machine, for example having dput/dupload not upload the
> .debs (so .changes still has them listed, but are not actually
> uploaded) and still accepting the upload.
>
> There are (still) people with slow internet connections or with very
> huge packages, with several binary packages, that would benefit a lot
> with this option.
>
> Additionally, things like NMUs or QA uploads (so where the tarball is
> not, generally, changed), would reduce to a ".dsc + .diff.gz +
> .changes" file set, that's a lot faster to upload.
>
> Thanks for considering,
I assume there is some check done on ftp-master involving the binary for some
reasons. Would it be possible to do this check on the developers machine and
simplely send a 'it passed the check' message instead? Thus saving the bandwidth?
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