Re: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dballe
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
Paul> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:11 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> You'll make it unnecessarily harder to bootstrap environments that need
>> themselves to build if you do that.
Paul> The idea here is that bootstrap builds are special and so they should
Paul> be very explicit rather than happen as a side effect of regular upload
Paul> workflows. Since they are relatively rare, making them explicit via
Paul> this mechanism shouldn't be too much of an imposition and on balance
Paul> might be the right way to go.
Bootstrap uploads of compilers etc are actually more common than I
thought before I started following debian-release.
They are common enough that requiring interactions from ftpmaster and/or
release team would make being a developer of such packages suck
significantly more.
If we throw away binaries by default, I do believe we need a mechanism
for maintainers to signal that this is a bootstrap upload.
--Sam
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