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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Hm.  I was thinking that it would only build the source package, and
> then the source package would get built by something like the existing
> mechanism.  It doesn't have to be done this way, I guess, but it seems
> sanest and easiest to me.

This is exactly what should be happening, yes.  The buildd-manager will
dump the source package in the "incoming" directory from where the
process-upload script will pick it up.

> This is tangent, but how will scoring work?  I'm guessing the value
> returned by IBuildFarmJob['score'] is stashed in the BuildQueue and then
> it's the value in the BuildQueue that's examined by findBuildCandidates?

Noodles is going to sort that out next week.  But basically we need the
same sort of scoring scheme across all job types so that none is
favoured over others unless it's deliberately rescored.

> I guess it would help if I remembered how signing of binary packages
> built by the current system worked...

They are not signed :)

J