On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: >> - There seems to be consensus to go ahead with throw-away debs; they >> require a bit of work though so either be patient or, better, >> volunteer with FTP masters to help out with the implementation of the >> remaining bits. > I think this was mentioned in some previous incarnation of this > discussion, but throwing away debs unconditionally, or at least w/o > having a way to specify they must not be thrown away is going to be > an issue when bootstrapping packages. Those cases where we have > a cyclic build dependency chain, which is not uncommon:
You should still be able to upload binaries. So two uploads, one with the source and one with the binaries only should still let them be accepted. I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for those cases you mentioned. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrniup5u4.l9s.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
