source uploads are no problem (but binNMUs are)

[Holger Levsen]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 12:24:28AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> How do you generate and sign potentially hundreds or thousands of 
> sourceful uploads for these dependent packages?
> 
> binNMUs are not possible when these dependent packages are arch:all.
 
for i in $list_of_src_pkgs ; do
        mkdir t ; cd t
        apt source $i
        cd $i-*
        dch --some-params
        debuild -S
        cd ..
        debsign *changes
        dput *changes
        cd ..
done

this is not rocket science. I have done that with 10% of the
archive, that is >3000 sources packages and uploads.

I also believe dgit makes this even easier, but I have not tried that yet.

I guess I'd welcome the need of having to do 23 of such uploads so that
someone shows how to do this with dgit and this boring argument becomes mood.

I also think we *still* need a better way to do binNMUs for all archs because
binNMUs have other problems, see #894441 and friends.



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        Holger

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