>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes:
Paul> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:11 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> You'll make it unnecessarily harder to bootstrap environments that need >> themselves to build if you do that. Paul> The idea here is that bootstrap builds are special and so they should Paul> be very explicit rather than happen as a side effect of regular upload Paul> workflows. Since they are relatively rare, making them explicit via Paul> this mechanism shouldn't be too much of an imposition and on balance Paul> might be the right way to go. Bootstrap uploads of compilers etc are actually more common than I thought before I started following debian-release. They are common enough that requiring interactions from ftpmaster and/or release team would make being a developer of such packages suck significantly more. If we throw away binaries by default, I do believe we need a mechanism for maintainers to signal that this is a bootstrap upload. --Sam