On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:57:16PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > On 22 February 2011 13:59, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The alternative of adding a specialized field in debian/control for packages > > that should generally only be uploaded from branch so that anyone who tries > > to > > dput the package gets some kind of warning (as discussed elsewhere in the > > thread) would, I think, deal with this case adequately while preserving the > > option to upload via dput should it REALLY be necessary in some case. > There seem to be two variables here: does a package upload just give a > warning, or does it block; and secondly is this configured in the > package metadata itself or in Launchpad. On the first point I think > we absolutely want to have it start out with just a warning. To be > more accurate, we will actually start out with no warnings at all, and > probably only turn them on when people feel that particular teams are > over the hump of wanting to use it all the time. > Regarding where it is done, I see no problem with doing it in > debian/control. If it's configured in the package itself we would > have the option to give a warning at the time people run dput rather > than later sending mail back from Soyuz complaining about it. If you're going to put it in debian/control, then I think a Vcs-Bzr: field pointing at a UDD branch already encodes this information - 'apt-get source' already warns about it, we might as well have dput warn on the same thing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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