Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload"):
> Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
> > I also do assume that the uploader will build things, to see if the
> > stuff they are going to "push to the archive" (and our users) actually
> > does what they intended it to do - and to test it.
> 
> This is the assumption that I think is no longer valid given Salsa CI.  It
> used to be that this was the only way to test a package; now we can do
> equally well and often better by letting Salsa CI do the hard work.

Also, you can build a package directly from a git tree.

Unlike a gbp branch, a git-debrebase format branch does not need any
changes made, so you can just run `make` or `dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b`
to build executables, or binary packages, for local informal testing.

Ian.

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