Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 11.04.2012, 12:05 +0100 schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > >> A source upload isn't "just a rebuild" in Debian. It's an NMU and > >> requires building and testing the package with at least as much care > >> as > >> any other NMU would. It doesn't scale, it's a waste of resources > >> and > >> I'm not convinced that it's something that it's appropriate for the > >> Release Team to be doing on a regular basis. > > > > while I agree with your other points, I wonder why doing a sourceful > > upload without source changes, built in a clean environment such as > > pbuilder, should require more testing than scheduling binNMUs, i.e. > > none? > > Culturally, I suspect many maintainers view an NMU - even one with no > actual changes - as a different beast from a binary rebuild. Whether > that should be the case is a different matter. ok, that might be a valid point, although I think that over the course of the last decate, in general such actions are better received. > From a technical perspective, even for a small package there's still > significantly more work involved in "fetch source, update chroot, > rebuild, sign, upload" than "schedule binNMU, wait for the build to fail > or the package to appear in the archive". Personally the latter is also > much more possible to do whilst away from my signing key - e.g. during > my lunch break at work. For larger packages the investment in time (and > bandwidth) required is also potentially much larger. True, I was not debating the work involved (and I really wish I could binNMU arch:all packages as well instead of being forced to do a sourceful upload). I’d just like to point out that if, for some reason, is it more convenient for me to do a sourceful no-change upload instead of binNMUing on all arches (e.g. because I need the result to continue working), I’d do a no-change sourceful upload and expect that to be ok with everyone. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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