Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2009-11-16, Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> wrote:
> If you throw away the binaries, a DD can upload a binary package with a
> sole binary that prints out banana and a source package that builds the
> right thing presumably.  Are there any checks to prevent that?
>
> I'm trying to work out if you get what you think you do from building
> but throwing away that makes it better than entirely source-only.

You can run lintian on the resulting binaries, which you can't on source-only
uploads.  (Well, you can only check the source package.)  Now, if that stub
binary you upload is free from errors ftp-masters reject upon, then you can
still work around that.

And I didn't bother to check now if they really rely on binary checks yet,
however I'd at least assume something like binary-package-is-empty.  ;-)

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern