Re: source-only uploads and lintian checks

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> once we allow source-only uploads, we will only do the lintian check for
> the source upload, but many packages have only problems in the binary
> packages.
> 
> I think we should do a lintian check for binary-only uploads as well
> once source-only uploads are allowed.
> 
> As buildd maintainers should not have to deal with rejections caused by
> this, we should make sure the rejection mail for the binary uploads go
> (also/only?) to the package maintainer.
> 
> Would this cause any other problems with the buildd network I might have
> missed?

What about lintian auto-rejects based on issues in binary packages? Will
you wait with accepting source packages until the first binary is built
and provokes no lintian auto-reject, or will they get unaccepted, or
what?


Michael