Comment 18 for bug 156575

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 15:17 +0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
> Hi Willian,
>
> Super-thanks for working on this task.
>
> 'build_debug_symbols' argument for the `build` XMLRPC command is fine.
>
> DDEBs are published in the DEBUG (purpose) archive for a distribution
> and will be published with:
>
> `./scripts/publish-distro.py --primary-debug` (completely separate repo
> using NMAF)
>
> once we create the needed DEBUG archive (well remembered).
>
> The new archive flag (for controlling ddeb generation) will come later,
> for now 'build_debug_symbols' should be hardcoded as True only for
> building sources in the ubuntu PRIMARY archive (and the security ppa
> ...).

Why not do it all at once? The database and UI changes for the IArchive
flag are almost trivial.

> Regarding propagating changes to `pkg-create-dbgsym` to old series, I
> guess we can shelve the new version directly in the chroots instead
> submitting it via SRU (which it won't pass, I believe).

Hmm. That seems like a really icky thing to do, but I suppose it might
be better than SRUing it.