Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
This is a good reason to forbid source-only uploads, but there is another, which actually leverages what we do now, and the idea of not using the maintainer-provided binary packages in order to have better determinism on the build: [...] Sounds like a great idea, yes. If ftpmasters don't

Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Joey Hess] File sizes won't 100% stable unfortunatly but the rest should be. Well, depending on how often I upgrade, vs. how often the buildd does (and for that matter, how long my package sits in a queue before it is built), there can be dependency changes due to build-depends shlibs /

Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, brian m. carlson wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:00:11PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: That's something I don't understand. If I upload a broken package, why should it be the buildd admin's job to deal with it? Should not I get notified of the error, and told to fix

Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: 1. Instead of discarding upon upload the maintainer-provided binary uploads, we should first retain some interesting metadata[1] about it, and then discard. * Packages that outright FTBFS won't get uploaded 2. Autobuild all binary packages

Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: This is a good reason to forbid source-only uploads, but there is another, which actually leverages what we do now, and the idea of not using the maintainer-provided binary packages in order to have better determinism on the build: [...] Sounds like a great