On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:23:11PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The problem is that there are now two source packages which produce the same > > binaries. How can an autobuilder know which of the two should be build? > > Well, to Ben's credit it should be said that this problem is somewhat > peculiar to turtle. AFAIK the other autobuilder just pick up whatever > source packages are uploaded in roughly FIFO fashion, compile, upload, > and forget about them. The db -> db2 renaming will be hardly noticable > there.
Mh. Okay. The more I think about it, the smaller the problem appears to be. Ben, sorry for bothering you. > Maybe turtle could be extended to at least detect this kind of > overlap. It would be useful information. I will think about it. Thanks in any way for noticing it! I have never really thought about different source packages producing the same binaries, and it is quite important to be aware of the issue. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
