Hi Geert, On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 22:49 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Is it debexpo that makes it possible that users > can `dput` to mentors? > > Webpage https://wiki.debian.org/Debexpo doesn't tell > and I'm not sure if mentors.debian.net is a destination > for `dput`.
Debexpo is the software running on mentors.debian.net. It is written in Python using the Django framework. It has many moving parts, including: - The web interface - A source package repository - A read-only GPG keyserver - An importer, that process packages - Some QA plugins - An API Aside from that, we are running a FTP service on the server. (that we are looking to retire) Dput and dput-ng are tools that upload packages using supported protocols (FTP, HTTPS, SSH, ...). As long as you have a target defined in their configuration that support those protocol, you can upload packages there. Regarding mentors, both dput [1] and dput-ng [2] have a default FTP configuration for mentors. Moreover, on the Maintainer page [3] on mentors show the configuration required for the HTTPS and FTP, the former being used by almost everyone. In conclusion, yes, mentors.debian.net is a valid dput destination, and one can upload with: dput -f mentors package.changes And yes, debexpo receive the package, process it, run some QA tools and makes it available to its source-only package repository. [1]: https://sources.debian.org/src/dput/1.1.3/dput.cf/?hl=91#L91 [2]: https://sources.debian.org/data/main/d/dput-ng/1.37/skel/profiles/mentors.json#L7 [3]: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ -- Baptiste Beauplat
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