Re: release goal for jessie! (Re: Source-only uploads

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Gunnar Wolf 

> Didier Raboud dijo [Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:21:19PM +0100]:
> > Actually, I like that way to put it as it leaves us with multiple ways 
> > forward:
> > 
> > * accept source-only;
> > * drop uploaded binaries;
> 
> I would join this camp as well. Without the working knowledge of being
> a DSA or buildd-admin, I cannot assure how much would this increase
> our workload, but it would probably just mean rebuilding for the most
> popular architectures (that is, AMD64 or i386), hardware for which is
> readily available and should pose no additional effort to get. And it
> would mean IMO a good leap forward in ensuring buildability — Even
> more with arch:all

I doubt it would make any change in the workload for us in the DSA.  I
assume it will lead to a slight increase in workload for the buildd
maintainers.

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