On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 18:27 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Because you seem to not be aware of how non-free works. Non-free is > not > autobuilt, so when Andreas uploaded 1.59+ds-2 without any binaries > then > "cluster3 has no binaries on any arch". Since there are no binaries > associated with the source, britney refuses to migrate it. Indeed, > one > could just do a binary-only build of it, upload it, and it would > migrate > stright the next day. > > Or one could ask for an exception to the non-free buildds as > docuemnted > on > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#marking-non-free-packages-as-auto-buildable > > As you can see, nothing relating to that bug. > Could we add a note to tracker or excuses for non-free packages on what the developer needs to do to get it to migrate? My understanding of your explanation is that we need to do a binary upload for non-free because it's not auto-built. It's a difference from how main is handled and and it seems like putting documentation for the difference would help prevent confusion in the future. Diane
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