On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 02:47:45AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:32 AM Paul Gevers wrote: > > > [1] Source packages that build binaries unknown to the archive currently > > need these binaries to be uploaded by the maintainers for reviewing by > > ftp-master in NEW. IIRC there have been multiple proposals to avoid > > these binaries from either being needed or being uploaded to the Debian > > archive, but so far the current tooling requires this. > > There has been some recent work on this part of the problem, I > focussed on throwing away binaries for all sourceful uploads and ivodd > focussed on doing that for NEW uploads only. Since ivodd's patch is > further along than mine, I hope he will extend it to all sourceful > uploads.
You'll make it unnecessarily harder to bootstrap environments that need themselves to build if you do that. Throwing it away for NEW makes sense, but not for regular uploads, IMO. -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
