[arch-dev-public] Debug package support in dbscripts

[Brett Cornwall]

On 2021-12-16 20:50, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>On 14/12/2021 21:22, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Foxboron has been working on support for debug packages in dbscripts 
>>the past year. The progress has been slow but we are at a stage 
>>where we want to deploy the dbscripts portion of this. That means 
>>that on Thursday 17:00 until 20:00 UTC+1 we will close down 
>>repos.archlinux.org for any package updates.
>>
>>The idea is to try limit any potential unforseen bugs and have a 
>>small testing phase before opening it like normal. If we do find 
>>bugs we will rollback any changes and work out the bugs.
>>
>>If everything goes according to plan we’ll work on a devtools patch 
>>that would allow debug package updates. Then it is up to us if we 
>>enable debug for all packages or make it opt in.
>>
>>If people are curious about the introduced changes, they can be found here:
>>https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/dbscripts/-/merge_requests/21
>
>The changes have been deployed on repos.archlinux.org, everything 
>should work as expected. If you encounter issues please report them 
>either in this mail thread or on #archlinux-devops on libera.chat
>
>Thanks advance,
>
>Jelle van der Waa


Thanks for your work, Jelle!