Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload

Simon Josefsson [11/Feb  9:50pm +01] wrote:
>> > NEW uploads should be permitted to be source-only.
>>
>> This would be a significant improvement.  I think binaries needed for
>> review by the DFSG team should be autobuilt.
>
> DFSG Team: do you look at maintainer-uploaded binaries?  Why?
>
> They could be autobuilt, but I wonder what the real purpose of that is.
> Only to prove that the source code actually builds against build
> dependencies in Debian?  That would indeed be a good test.  But
> binaries aren't needed for that, just a build log from a trusted
> builder.

Back when I worked NEW: I very often wanted to see the list of files
installed by the package, and the full, expanded list of binary package
relationships.  Rarely, I would actually look inside the .deb.

These are real needs for NEW review.

I think one source of opposition for autobuilding packages before they
go into NEW is that the DFSG team won't yet has asserted/confirmed that
the license permits autobuilding.  But, well, we already have Salsa CI,
so I think that is not worth blocking on.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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