[debexpo-devel] sourceless upload for debian revision >1

Jonny Lamb jonnylamb at jonnylamb.com
Wed May 14 13:51:49 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:58:32PM +0200, mentors.debian.net support wrote:
> On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, you (Alexandre Rossi) wrote:
> > Is it a feature to require source to be uploaded again (debuild -sa)
> > for debian revision 2 or is it something nobody had time to look into?
> > The algorithm seems fairly simple, like fetching the source from the
> > official archive. I cannot see any drawback to this, am I missing
> > something?
> 
> Actually that has been done to remove complexity. But you are right. It's 
> not the hardest thing to try to download the upstream archive. I probably 
> won't add it to mentors.debian.net anyway. The "debexpo" project 
> (debexpo.workaround.org) is currently running as a GSoC project and is 
> supposed to deliver a basis for repositories. I hope that it can be 
> implemented there. That's why I send a copy to the development mailing 
> list.

Not requiring -sa is a great option. It'll be easy to download the
orig.tar.gz from ftp.debian.org (if it exists). I've added it to my list
of things for debexpo.

Thanks!,

-- 
Jonny Lamb, UK                                   jonnylamb at jonnylamb.com
http://jonnylamb.com                                     GPG: 0x2E039402
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