Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > The main use case I've seen mentioned on list to favor source only > uploads over throw away debs is that of "low bandwidth" or "bandwidth > limits". Most likely, that use case applies to very few people and the > vast majority of uploads could happen without suffering of those > problems.
I have another use case: Uploading packages with little (typos, changes in debian/control) or no (aka rebuild triggering) changes, but applying such a change to 200 packages – something that comes up with the Haskell packaging team often. Often I am confident that my change is correct even without manual testing. Nevertheless I have to fire up a pbuilder, build several dozen packages in the right order (something that wanna-build is much better in figuring out), some of which build fast and some take quite some time. A lot of work goes into useless manual labor here despite the fact that we (almost) have the infrastructure to automate that. I, for one, welcome our new alien ant^W^W source only uploads. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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