Bug#942533: sardana: needs a source-only upload.

[peter green]

On 17/10/2019 22:23, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> ok, but this packages comes from NEW.
>
> So it would be nice if the  process NEW -> unstable could be a source upload.
> Ir is not possible to upload without the binary in New.
>
> This processus necessitate two uploads if I understand correctly.

Yeah, that is the present situation, the FTP team insist that uploads to NEW come with binaries so they can inspect them before approving the upload and there is currently no mechanism to prevent those binaries from going on to enter the archive. So the only way round this is to upload twice, once to get through new and then a second time to get through testing migration.

I agree this situation is suboptimal, but afaict there is nothing us regular DDs can do about it, if we want to get packages into releases, we have to play by the FTP teams and the release teams rules :/