Le Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:12:44PM +0100, Enrico Tassi a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:07:22PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 13/02/08 at 22:21 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Currently, we already have several DDs building their packages without > > using an up-to-date, clean sid chroot. If we start throwing away the > > Even if the package is rebuilt, the uploaded debs are not useless. > You may debdiff them and eventually informe the developer that: > - his build environment is corrupted (or the buildd's one) > - his package build process is installation sensitive (behaves > differently on a different installation).
Hi all, This is a very good idea, but the reason why source-only uploads are not allowed is that there are concerns that if the binary package is not used for real, the quality of the source package will drop. Within this hypothesis, there is no incentive for the laxist developper to use the valuable feedback that you propose. When he communicated about source-only uploads in his email of January 2007, James Troup wrote: "This is not something I personally think is a good idea but I won't stand in the way of consensus of the Release Managers and the developer community as a whole." http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, to move forward, It seems that the opinion of the release managers is needed. The other concern of James Troup is that the i386 buildd may not keep up. So I guess that another piece of the puzzle is in the hand of the i386 buildd maintainers, the release team, the i386 porters, and the system administration team. Then, because "a consensus between the Release Managers and the developer community as a whole" has been required, a GR will be needed. Since it is a necessary step, the writing of it may be a useful tool to clarify arguments before presenting them to the persons in charge ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]