Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-28 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, Chipping in late... sorry for that. 2011/6/7 Don Armstrong : > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: >> > Non-buildd binaries should still be allowed, but they should be >> > followed immediately by a binNMU. [Are there any cases where we >> > wouldn't want to rebuild the package after

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 18:11]: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 04:25]: > > > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for > > > > those cases you mention

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 04:25]: > > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for > > > those cases you mentioned. > > > > Non-buildd binaries should still be allowed, bu

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 04:25]: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for > > those cases you mentioned. > > Non-buildd binaries should still be allowed, but they should be > followed immediately by a binNMU. [

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for > those cases you mentioned. Non-buildd binaries should still be allowed, but they should be followed immediately by a binNMU. [Are there any cases where we wouldn't want to rebuild the pack

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38:03 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Are you saying they cannot be bootstrapped with older versions (which > are already in the archive)??! By definition if they need to be manually bootstrapped it's because their build dependencies are not available. The usual cases for that a

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Luk Claes
On 06/06/2011 10:16 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:20:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we want source only uploads or

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:03:00 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I think this was mentioned in some previous incarnation of this > > discussion, but throwing away debs unconditionally, or at least w/o > > having a way to specify they must not be thrown away is go

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover wrote: >> - There seems to be consensus to go ahead with throw-away debs; they >> require a bit of work though so either be patient or, better, >> volunteer with FTP masters to help out with the implementation of the >> remaining bits. > I think this was mentione

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:20:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we > > > want source only uploads or to throw away DD built non-all debs. > > > There's

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 17.04.2011, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > - There seems to be consensus to go ahead with throw-away debs; they > require a bit of work though so either be patient or, better, > volunteer with FTP masters to help out with the implementation of the > remaining b

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:55:12PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - going ahead with throw away debs seems to be largely uncontroversial; > can we haz zem please? :-) Will that throw away Arch: all packages as well? If there are no technical issues/implementation missing with this (somebody

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we > > want source only uploads or to throw away DD built non-all debs. > > There's not entire agreement amongst the ftpmasters about this (I err > > on the sid

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Bcc:-ing ftpmasters ] Time to wrap up the current state of this discussion, at least as far as I see it. - going ahead with throw away debs seems to be largely uncontroversial; can we haz zem please? :-) - there seems to be no substantial objections either on the fact the source only uploa

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-31 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > The main use case I've seen mentioned on list to favor source only > uploads over throw away debs is that of "low bandwidth" or "bandwidth > limits". Most likely, that use case applies to very few people and the > vast majo

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: throw away debs and source only uploads"): > Most uploads are done using dput or dupload. We could add code to them > to verify that there's binaries corresponding to the source that is > about to be built. We could have the archive scripts in

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Regarding source only upload, well, it's tricky. There is the usual > tension about the principle desire of trusting every DD to do the right > thing and the reality-check observation that enabling people to upload > only s

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > I definitely agree we want to throw away developer-built debs (arch all > & arch any) in almost all situations. > I don't think I would want the lintian solution for source-only uploads, > I would prefer something on a per-upload basis that requires an explicit > human decisi

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
I definitely agree we want to throw away developer-built debs (arch all & arch any) in almost all situations. I don't think I would want the lintian solution for source-only uploads, I would prefer something on a per-upload basis that requires an explicit human decision per-upload rather than some

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2011-03-30 at 17:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Someone (I forget who) previously suggested that a source-only changes > file should have to be accompanied by a build log. This would need a > bit of infrastructure to file the build log away. Most uploads are done using dput or dupload. W

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > Regarding source only upload, well, it's tricky. There is the usual > tension about the principle desire of trusting every DD to do the right > thing and the reality-check observation that enabling people to upload > only s

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > The above is just an idea, little more than a brain-dump, for > finding a compromise among the real needs of people with bandwidth > problem and the social issues revolving around developer > sloppiness. [...] I expect par

throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:37:05PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: > Ok, the situation here is the following: Thanks a lot for taking the time of clarifying. > The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we > want source only uploads or to throw away DD built non-all debs. > Ther