Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:41:50AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> Developers with amd64 machines are also now able to upload new versions >> of their package built locally (rather than in an i386 chroot) -- but >> in order to ensure dependencies are calculated correctly, please make >> sure you're building using Debian unstable and not packages from Ubuntu >> or the unofficial debian-amd64 archive; using pbuilder or debootstrap >> to create a chroot build environment might be helpful in this case. > > In order to fulfill this requirement, is there a best practice / any > possible way to "convert" an amd64 box which has been installed from > debian-amd64 to an official debian amd64 box?
I recommend not to try it. I think packages that are uploaded to Debian should be compiled in a clean, up-to-date pbuilder environment, or something equivalent. Not on a machine that's used for working, that might have other build-dependency alternatives installed than pbuilder would pick, or maybe has undeclared build-deps installed. Since debootstrap works for amd64 in unstable, setting up a pbuilder chroot should work as for any other arch, I guess. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)