On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote: > Hi Adrian,
Hi Peter, > Thanks for that. I was reading up on this 'source only' uploads. In general I > agree with the idea, however for cmucl when a new major version gets released > the rebuilding of the new version using the old version is non-trivial and > not automated. > > So for major releases I do the rebuilding manually and then upload > binaries+source. The binaries can rebuild the sources, but the old binaries > cannot. > > Is this setup still supported with the new rules or is this the last hurrah > from the cmucl package? this setup is still supported, but you have to make second upload with a new Debian revision and without binaries (dpkg-buildpackage -S) afterwards. If you look at the diff of my proposed NMU, it does not contain any changes other than a new entry in debian/changelog. > Best regards, Peter cu Adrian
