On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:36:23PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:07AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > binNMUs though. Aren't buildds simply there to build the existing > > > sources on other platforms? Surely some human was involved here?
> > wanna-build and buildd have been modified a while back to be able to do > > binNMU's. The only human involvement is when a given package is marked > > in the database as 'requires a binNMU', and when the buildd admin later > > signs the package, as usual. > Would it be possible to record the name of the human that marked the > package in debian/changelog? That would be a big help, I think (and > hopefully avoid a discussion on debian-devel next time it happens) Not easily, with the available tools; there's no good mapping even from a wanna-build 'user' to a name/email, so practically speaking the user of w-b would have to manually include their own name in the changelog entry being specified. > Probably requiring more work, but I wonder if it would be possible for > the buildd -- or perhaps katie -- to verify that binNMUs don't render > previously-installable packages uninstallable? Well, that would be nice, but uploads of uninstallable packages have been a problem for a long time (not just in binNMUs), and no one's implemented such a check yet. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
