* Sean Whitton <[email protected]> [2026-02-12 12:00]:
From personal experience, both as sponsor and packager, I'd like to add that these are things that you can easily get wrong by accident, so I'm very much in favor of these sanity checks for NEW.Back when I worked NEW: I very often wanted to see the list of files installed by the package, and the full, expanded list of binary package relationships. Rarely, I would actually look inside the .deb.These are real needs for NEW review.
I sometimes upload a new package together with one or more new dependencies, which means it might not be immediately autobuildable from the archive alone. Certainly not an unsolvable problem, but it shows that there are edge cases to be considered.I think one source of opposition for autobuilding packages before they go into NEW is that the DFSG team won't yet has asserted/confirmed that the license permits autobuilding. But, well, we already have Salsa CI, so I think that is not worth blocking on.
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