On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Jos? Manuel Santamar?a Lema wrote: > I'm a novice and I uploaded some times packages to m.d.n. According to the > home page, binary packages are discarded keeping only the source package. > However every time that I upload a package, _all_ files are uploaded, > including > those that will be discarded by m.d.n. I checked the dput and dupload docs > and > I didn't found any way to avoid the upload of *.deb and *.changes files in > order to save a bit of my time and my bandwith. > > So, I have uploaded to my alioth account a modified version of dput: > http://alioth.debian.org/~santa-guest/dput_0.9.5.1+santa1.dsc > > I checked a bit this list and the dput bug reports, it seems very weird for > me > that nobody complained about this issue. What do you think?
If you want to build a change file with only a source package, then just give the -S option to dpkg-buildpackage. It's got nothing to do with dput -- it just uploads what you ask it to via the contents of the .changes. That's why there's no bug reports about it -- because it's not a bug. I don't know what m.d.n's policy on the matter is as far as requiring binary packages, but it's fairly unlikely that they'll be able to process your upload without a .changes file, so you really don't want to stop uploading that. Given that it's normally about 2kB, it's hardly a great saving anyway. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org