Re: Bits from the Stable Release Managers
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:47:43PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 19:42:48 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>
> > On 25/05/15 18:24, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 May 2015 21:27:47 Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >> Due to the way that the archive manages uploads to proposed-updates, if
> > >> you upload a .changes file which only includes source and
> > >> architecture:all packages, please ensure that you rename it to something
> > >> other than "_$arch.changes".
> >
> > Does this only apply to source packages that produce at least one binary
> > package on $arch, or does it also apply to source packages that solely
> > produce architecture-independent binaries?
> >
> No, the issue is when the maintainer-uploaded .changes file name clashes
> with the one from a binary (buildd) upload, so if there aren't any
> architecture-dependent binaries, then this doesn't matter.
Maybe dak should refuse uploads of a _$arch.changes file that does not
refer to any _$arch.deb files with an appropriate error message? Then
this isn't an issue.
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