Re: mandatory source uploads

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 7/8/19 9:38 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2019-07-08 09:14, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 7/8/19 12:34 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>> As long as your build-depends are properly versioned, why can't you just
>>> upload all the source and let wanna-build sort it out?
> [...]
>> This means that I have to baby-sit the Debian archive and upload
>> everything in the correct order, waiting for the previous upload to be
>> accepted and online.
> 
> Not really. wanna-build will only schedule the build if the build
> dependency is satisfiable. So if you encode everything correctly there
> (which might be hard, c.f. circular build dependencies), wanna-build
> will schedule in the correct order by itself.
> 
>> BTW, one very important thing: are the buildds configured to use
>> incoming at least? If so, that probably could be bearable.
> 
> And of course buildds use incoming and so does wanna-build.
> 
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern

Thanks Philipp, for the advice.

So if I understand correctly, I can just rebuild everything and do
source-only uploads, and the Debian infra will be smart enough to
understand how to build? Great, I'll try then! :)

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)