On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 01:59:10PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Holger Levsen <[email protected]> writes:
"Uploads to NEW (even if only binary-NEW), because for those ftp.d.o
currently demands maintainer-generated binaries."
Why on earth are we accepting maintainer-generated binaries into the
archive in 2026?
Yes, I know several reasonable answers to that question, but they don't
resolve the concern with maintainer-generated binaries.
NEW uploads should be permitted to be source-only.
Just to be clear, I think this is a misinterpretation of the current
state. https://wiki.debian.org/ThrowAwayNewBinaries is implemented; we
still require maintainer-generated binaries in that workflow so that the
DFSG team can review the resulting layout, but that doesn't equate to
"accepting maintainer-generated binaries into the archive" as part of
the typical NEW workflow.
(Yes, there are other situations in which maintainer-generated binaries
do get into unstable, although not testing, and non-main is still an
issue. But let's not conflate that with what normally happens when NEW
is involved.)
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Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
