Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

Dear Mentors,

I'm a Debian Maintainer now and am uploading a new release of my package 
alpine, for which I successfully uploaded 1.0+dfsg-1 to the archive.

I noticed that according to 
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=alpine , the Debian archive 
never builds i386 packages.  To my surprise, it accepts the binary 
.debs I upload with the source package.

That sort of creeps me out - I'd much rather exercise a buildd and make 
sure that a pristine package gets into the archive.  So I thought I 
would upload a dsc containing only source.  (That dsc is available at 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_1.0+dfsg-2.dsc 
.)

However, I got this message back:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Debian Installer wrote:

> Rejected: source only uploads are not supported.

Dear Debian-Mentors,

Is it possible to ask the buildds to rebuild my package on all 
architectures as part of an upload?

Thanks!

-- Asheesh.

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