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

Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload"):
> 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.

Right.

> 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.

Indeed.

I don't know much about how the autobuilding system works but I would
love it if someone who did understand that would figure out how to
make this work.

If this is hard to organise with dak etc., one option would be a
dedicated git-based autobuilder attached to the tag2upload service.
That would somewhat be less useful to Debian as a whole, though,
because it would enable source-only NEW uploads only via tag2upload.

Having said that, it is tag2upload where the difference is *most*
stark between (a) performing a source-only operation on the uploader's
machine and (b) the uploader building binaries.  So such a
tag2upload-only solution would be worthwhile if we cann't have a
general solution.

Ian.