Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 21:30:25 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Joerg Jaspert]
> > As one thing to keep in mind - we have an acl structure in dak.
> > Currently it reads something like
> > 
> > all DD keys are allowed all uploads.
> > all DM keys are allowed their own uploads according to DM rights.
> > all buildd keys are allowed binary only uploads for their arch.
> > 
> > It is not impossible nor excluded to have a set of rules like
> > 
> > all DD keys are allowed all uploads, binaries dropped
> > all DM keys are allowed their own uploads according to DM rights,
> >                         binaries dropped
> > all buildd keys are allowed binary only uploads for their arch.
> 
> Paul Tagliamonte had a nice idea on IRC:
> 
>   all DD keys are allowed all uploads,
>       binaries dropped _iff_ there is a source component
> 
> This preserves the ability to upload a manual binNMU, which is not
> common, but is useful and sometimes necessary.  (And not only for
> bootstrapping an arch or a compiler.)

I had thought that was already the conclusion from the previous
discussion when these problems were brought up. But it appears
most of it is being rehashed again.

regards,
guillem