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Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 1. Instead of discarding upon upload the maintainer-provided binary uploads,
>    we should first retain some interesting metadata[1] about it, and then
>    discard.
> 
>    * Packages that outright FTBFS won't get uploaded
> 
> 2. Autobuild all binary packages (determinism, clean chroot, etc)
> 
> 3. Compare the metadata on the autobuilt binary packages and the binary
>    packages originally uploaded by the maintainer
> 
> 4. Notify of any important discrepancies (through PTS, *automated*):

Completely agree. 

File sizes won't 100% stable unfortunatly but the rest should be.

> [1] Where metadata means dumps of the information we might want in step (4),
>     but could also be the entire binary package. Whatever is more practical.
> 
>     Obviously, it should be discarded after a small while (one week? one
>     month?).

Putting it in the .changes file seems to make the most sense?

-- 
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