On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:20:49AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Okay - Are maintainers typically willing to accept these changes? > > The Debian maintainer will have to, because unbuildable packages get a bug > with severity "important". Upstream should be willing, too.
<giggle> I'm going to be 'popular' aren't I? > > I have been slowly adding packages one by one. I'm starting with > > anything that's been uploaded before. > > It would be useful to have a full status on the whole source archive. > However, we don't want to build them all. So just add a directory for every > source package, and put it on hold immediately[1] (by setting the "suspended" > flag). Then just remove the suspended flags for every package you want to > monitor. This way the wb pages will contain a complete report on the status > of the Hurd port (how many packages are up to date, out of date, not yet > build etc). I would like to wait until we have the master-slave turtle thing working for this. I will probably run the master (in do-nothing-else mode) on a Linux box somewhere to help with uptime. > [1] Should be a shell one liner, I can work it out for you. > Otherwise I am going to set up a dummy autobuilder, which only generates > status reports, for Sourceforge or Debian web pages. Shouldn't the master turtle handle this? > (in concurrence to > buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff, which I find inaccurate at times. But as it > might help you to get a quick list of out of date packages, have a look > anyway: > http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/output/unstable/by_section-hurd-i386.txt > ). It hasn't picked anything up that's gone in this week... > > I would like to see 'make check' become a standard part of building debian > > packages for those that support it. I think perl already does this - I > > don't know of the best way to suggest this, however. > > Send a patch to the Debian policy or pakaging manual (whatever is more > appropriate) to [email protected] and ask for seconds. You get > mine, and maybe Rolands. That's enough to get the ball rolling. Packaging manual, I think. Can I send it to you for proofing first so that I don't make a *complete* fool of myself with my first post there? =) -- My UUism extends beyond national boundaries.
