Re: throw away debs and source only uploads
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:03:00 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
Ah right, and while still slightly cumbersome, it would at least not
be as annoying as needing to prod people around, etc.
> I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for those
> cases you mentioned.
Yes, please.
thanks,
guillem
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