Re: Skipping the upload of *.deb and *.changes files to m.d.n
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Jos? Manuel Santamar?a Lema wrote:
> I'm a novice and I uploaded some times packages to m.d.n. According to the
> home page, binary packages are discarded keeping only the source package.
> However every time that I upload a package, _all_ files are uploaded, including
> those that will be discarded by m.d.n. I checked the dput and dupload docs and
> I didn't found any way to avoid the upload of *.deb and *.changes files in
> order to save a bit of my time and my bandwith.
>
> So, I have uploaded to my alioth account a modified version of dput:
> http://alioth.debian.org/~santa-guest/dput_0.9.5.1+santa1.dsc
>
> I checked a bit this list and the dput bug reports, it seems very weird for me
> that nobody complained about this issue. What do you think?
If you want to build a change file with only a source package, then just
give the -S option to dpkg-buildpackage. It's got nothing to do with dput
-- it just uploads what you ask it to via the contents of the .changes.
That's why there's no bug reports about it -- because it's not a bug.
I don't know what m.d.n's policy on the matter is as far as requiring binary
packages, but it's fairly unlikely that they'll be able to process your
upload without a .changes file, so you really don't want to stop uploading
that. Given that it's normally about 2kB, it's hardly a great saving
anyway.
- Matt
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