Re: missing -dbgsym packages on uploads by maintainer(s)

[Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>]

On 11/12/2016 08:10 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:58:13AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>> What stops us from throwing away .debs from maintainers starting tomorrow?
>>
>> The machinery for arch:all binaries is still incomplete:
> Fine, what stops us from throwing away arch:!all .debs? 

Actually, there could be another option:

 - by default, throw away all binary debs on uploads

 - there is a special field in the .changes file (automatically
   set by buildds) to tell dak to keep the debs

   e.g. Keep-Binaries: yes

That way people can still upload in cases where the current
build infrastructure fails, but in the vast majority of cases
where that's not a problem this wouldn't happen. And for
packages where this does fail, just add the field to
d/control (with XC- prefix), so you don't need to think about
that at each upload.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Christian