El jue, 25-01-2007 a las 01:23 +0000, James Troup escribió: [...] > > Why restrictions on binary uploads? > =================================== > > So there are several reasons why these restrictions have been put in > place: > > (o) reproducibility > [...] > > (o) logging [...]
Shouldn't this also apply to i386 and/or amd64/ppc? (as those are the main archtitectures being uploaded). I don't understand why I cannot upload an alpha binary (apart of the obvious reason that I don't own an alpha machine), but I can still make any kind of binary uploads. I can agree with this goals, but this also mean that to achieve this, source only uploads should be enabled. [...] > (Now if at this point, you're thinking about source only uploads, > please see [*].) [...] > [*] > > Why not move to source only uploads? > ==================================== > > A question that often comes up when this subject is discussed is 'hey, > I agree about the logging and reproducibility points above, so why not > move to source only uploads so you get those for all binaries?' > > So, again, 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. I think it's a bad idea for two > reasons: Then why do you enable binary upload restrictions without asking first? Of course I know that this question itself would imply a hughe flamewar. It seems that it is the only way we have to communicate in Debian right now, but acting without prior notice is worse than asking. > > (a) we don't currently have the buildd infrastructure for this - it > would require a minimum of 2 (preferably 3) machines dedicated to > being i386 buildds. It would also make i386 uploads much more > sensitive to delays and really require better coverage than one > human could provide. I don't think that i386 hardware can be a problem in any way. We can set up i386 buildds easily. > > (b) source only uploads are in my experience very often badly tested > if they're even tested at all. For a long time after Ubuntu > switched to source only uploads, it was really obvious that a > large number of them hadn't even been test built, never mind > installed or used.[3][4] I also think so, but as we say in Spain, you cannot be at the same time tolling bells and at procession. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
