... because distribution-check allows you to spot whenever you're breaking a dependency or something of the sort.

The reason I'm opening this bug is because I faced the following:

• PatchXYZ in Genius removes an artifact
• Netvirt is actually using the artifact the Genius patch PatchXYZ wants to remove
• PatchXYZ will fail to build because distribution-check will complain of a missing dependency (obviously the one build PatchXYZ removes)
• Update the commit message --> only the verify job gets triggered, and jenkins will successfully verified. But distribution-check will not run, thus the patch will get verified, although it should have failed.

Merging such a patch would break autorelease. I think to avoid this, we should always run distribution-check.

See https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/46689/ for reference.