On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:30, Adam Majer <ad...@zombino.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:58:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Adam Majer wrote: > >> > Or here's a radical idea - allow source only uploads of packages. > >> > >> And thus allow people to upload without ever building locally. > > > > I would expect people to build packages locally. How else can they > > install then? How can they test them otherwise? > > > > What about ditching *.deb before the upload? dput and related upload > > as they do now but ignore *.deb. Archive requires that .debs are in > > .changes but does not check for their actual presence. Would that work? > > As a personal note, as one of those unlucky people with a very slow > network connection: if binary packages built by maintainer have to be > discarded, than *please* allow a way to actually not upload them. > > I'm in favor of let the buildds generate binaries for all the arch > (even the one the maintainer used to build the package locally), but > having to wait a long time to upload a set of .debs and then see them > discarded it quite uncomfortable, and a waste of time, disk space and > bandwidth.
Even worse, when for some reason the upload fails, you have to start it over, and that's even more painful. Mike, not with a slow connection, but with big packages to upload -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
