Hello, ratt (rebuild all the things, https://packages.debian.org/sid/ratt) is really interesting but it's sometimes hard to use effectively on personal resources: some packages have tens, if not hundreds of reverse dependencies, and running ratt for them on your laptop is just not feasible.
So i'm wondering if Debian should offer a service where: * a developer (as someone with a gpg key in the debian keyring, at least at first) uploads a binary .changes file (so source + binary packages, built locally) to a new dput upload queue * ratt is executed against that package reverse dependencies * when the run is completed, a recap email is sent to the Changed-By address with the list of fail/success * also a web interface to track the progress of the rebuild & read the build logs. this could be scaled pretty easily with multiple backend "builders" (and we can put limits in place to reduce concurrency, like one package per developer only etc etc) Maybe it's something that could be done as a GSOC project (I'm not volunteering to mentor this project). thoughts? Regards, -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi
