Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
>> - There seems to be consensus to go ahead with throw-away debs; they
>>   require a bit of work though so either be patient or, better,
>>   volunteer with FTP masters to help out with the implementation of the
>>   remaining bits.
> I think this was mentioned in some previous incarnation of this
> discussion, but throwing away debs unconditionally, or at least w/o
> having a way to specify they must not be thrown away is going to be
> an issue when bootstrapping packages. Those cases where we have
> a cyclic build dependency chain, which is not uncommon:

You should still be able to upload binaries.  So two uploads, one with the
source and one with the binaries only should still let them be accepted.

I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for those cases
you mentioned.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern