Thomas Goirand <zigo <at> debian.org> writes: > Though I'm in the favor of dropping binaries rather than source-only,
This could even help the cases of packages that need itself to be built. When a packager does a source+binary upload of foo (= 1.2-1), it would be built in a clean, minimal chroot (yes, I’m adding the minimal here, with several side-stabs…) whose sources.list would contain unstable, and experimental for packages targetting that, as right now, plus ANOTHER, NEW repository, which is created by buildd “on the fly”, which contains the binaries that the packager uploaded, but is marked to never be used automatically just like experimental, so the binaries by the packager *CAN* be used to build the binaries that will make it into the archive, but *only* if the packager explicitly states it, here by doing a B-D on foo (>= 1.2-1), or even foo (>= 1.2) would work in this case. That one-package APT repo and its content would then be dropped afterwards, never to be seen again, no matter whether the build succeeded or not. bye, //mirabilos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20121125t005535-...@post.gmane.org