Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2014, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> 01.08.2014 11:37, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > as a first step towards source-only uploads, the archive will now accept
> > source-only uploads provided the following conditions are met:
> > 
> >  * The source package is not NEW and does not build NEW binaries.
> >  * Architecture-independent (arch:all) packages must be included in
> >    uploads.
> 
> Is there an easy way to produce such uploads?

If your source builds arch-all packages, this has actually worked for a
long time already.

The changestool utility from the reprepro package can be used to
manipulate a .changes file as needed.

For instance, the way my tor-package build machinery works, I end up
with a source-only .changes file (created by dpkg-genchanges -S) and
then add the .all package using changestool adddeb.

Cheers,
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