Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist In general we have been able to make all+source uploads for a while, and pure source uploads are now also allowed (a huge step in the right direction - thanks for doing that). However, the ftp team have indicated that they still want to see maintainer-built binaries in NEW uploads, so that they can see whether the new packages make sense.
By the time NEW binary or source packages are approved, the built binaries are reasonably likely to be out of date, which can disrupt transitions. For example, osrm was built against untransitioned libstxxl, uploaded to NEW, and later accepted <https://bugs.debian.org/791173>; if it had been rebuilt on all architectures, it would have been built with the new libstxxl everywhere. It would be great if uploads accepted from NEW could discard the maintainer-built binaries and build the package on the buildds instead, at least optionally. There might need to be an "escape hatch" by which maintainers *can* provide binaries that will be kept, if the package is difficult to build, or legally or technically incompatible with buildds (like some contrib and non-free packages). In particular, some packages FTBFS with dpkg-buildpackage -A (arch-indep only) but work with -b (arch-dep + arch-indep), so retaining _all binaries might be useful for those, until all such packages have been fixed. I think this should perhaps be a slightly higher priority than discarding maintainer-built binaries for non-NEW uploads, because the delay inherent in NEW review makes it more likely that the maintainer's binaries do not closely resemble the buildds' binaries. S
