Attention, packagers! Invalid rebuilds

[Mike McGrath]

On 9/13/06, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 10:21 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > Lots of warnings in today's push of packages in the needsign queue.
> > >
> > > There are still packagers who rebuild their packages _without_ increasing
> > > the "Release" value.
> >
> > surely a VCS trigger to check for such ( and notify over email perhaps .
> > ) is possible at the server end ?
>
> If you code this up, I think the check should go in the build code,
> rather than the VCS.
>
> -Toshio
>

I seem to remember some discussion about this a few months ago
concerning the makefile checking during the "make build/plague", which
isn't perfect but could at least inform the users that they're doing
something they aren't supposed to.

            -Mike