On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:28 pm Carlo Segre wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > The current "winning" opinion is to go with the source+throw away > > binaries route. We are close to being able to achieve this, it is > > simply that it has not yet been enabled. Before any version of this > > can be enabled, buildd autosigning needs to be implemented in order > > that dak can differentiate buildd uploads vs maintainer uploads. > > It may be necessary to also move the building of contrib packages to the > unofficial non-free buildd network. As it stands any contrib package > which has a non-free Build-Depends is not guaranteed to build on all > architectures since not all the buildd systems include the non-free > archives. Up to now it has been possible to do binary uploads to work > around this and get as many architectures in the archive as possible to > build manually. When this new option is enabled, it will no longer be > possible. As I understood it, it is still possible for DDs to do binary-only uploads (as allowed per GR). This throwing away of the binary package is only for the initial source+binary upload. (In an ideal world, there should be no need for DDs to do binary-only uploads by hand, but in reality it has to happen every now and then, at least for security).
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