Re: Source only upload
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:11:13AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:21:30PM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Personally, I think we should discard binaries from all sourceful
> > uploads and only accept binaries from binary-only uploads such as the
> > uploads done by the buildds.
>
> The reason we don't do this is because of bootstrapping: some tools
> require themselves to build, so you need to cross-build them on a
> different architecture, upload the cross-built binary, get an exception
> for that upload, and then re-upload the same version so it gets built on
Actually, you don't need an exception for that upload, but it needs to
go to unstable (and not testing).
Sorry for the confusion, my brain was a bit foggy apparently ;-)
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