Re: source-only uploads and lintian checks

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
> 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?

The new source package will be accepted, but the binary uploads for
architectures with problems detected by lintian will be rejected.

Ansgar