Hi! On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 22:00:32 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.15 > Severity: wishlist
> Currently one can do > > $ dpkg-buildpackage --changes-option=-S > > to do a binary build locally, but only upload the source package > so that buildds build on all arches. Note that this command *does* > generate a buildinfo file, but does not include it in the changes > file. This is actually a bug, which I mentioned in: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2016/11/msg00056.html> but probably failed to make this more clear there. > It would be good to be able to do something like > > $ dpkg-buildpackage --changes-option=-SB > > to do a binary build locally, but only upload the source package > *and* the buildinfo file. This was the intention from the beginning. But when I mentioned this on IRC the other day, Ansgar said ftp-masters might not be too happy about accepting buildinfo files referencing artifacts that we might not be able to generated. Because there's no distinction between packages that are reproducible and ones that are not. > This was one idea we had near the beginning of the R-B project. The > idea being developers could do this, then the buildds could try to > match what they built, as an extra check. Another advantage is that > the upload itself would be reduced in size. Those are the reasons I gave to Ansgar, but I'd like his and ftp-masters input on this. Right now I'm feeling a bit stuck with this because I'm not sure I can fulfill all desires: me fixing the bug, making repro peple happy, and making ftp-masters happy. :) Thanks, Guillem
