Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 26.10.2012 01:13, Peter Miller wrote:
> It may be possible to address both concerns in a different way.
>
> 1. Implement PPAs.  The code is open source, get it working first, 
> and
> enhance it later.
>
> 2. DDs and DMs upload source-only to their individual PPA(s).  The 
> PPA
> build farm builds the package on all the architectures Debian cares
> about.
>
> 3. When a DD or DM wants to place a package to testing or 
> experimental,
> it is done as a *copy* from a PPA (no upload required).  If the 
> package
> in the PPA didn't build, no copy happens.

s/testing/unstable/, presumably? "It builds everywhere" is only one 
criterion involved in testing migration; for all of the others, 
migration to testing from anywhere other than unstable doesn't really 
make sense.

Regards,

Adam