On 04/20/2012 03:25 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt, le Fri 20 Apr 2012 14:17:44 +0200, a écrit : >>> If the Debian maintainers were more responsive to bug reports wrt >>> GNU/Hurd the debian-ports archive would almost empty by now... >>> The problems are not only due to the porters. Currently there are 39 >>> bugs with patches, 5 forwarded and 6 pending upload, all with severity >>> important in the BTS. >> >> If maintainers do not react, couldn't you just go for NMUs instead of >> uploading changes to debian-ports? > > I personally never felt sure enough to do an NMU for an arch that is not > released yet. But if NMUs are fine for that, then good.
I believe NMUs (to DELAYED) are the right way to proceed if the maintainer does not react. Of course pinging the bug before shouldn't hurt. >> As you plan to stop using debian-ports, can you estimate when this can >> be done? > > That would require estimation of when e.g. pulseaudio will integrate our > patches. It looks like the fix for #573339 was already applied upstream. If there has been no new upstream release since then, they should be backported to the current version in Debian (and uploaded). In any case I believe you need to be more aggressive on getting the needed patched in the official archive. There is not much more time before the freeze left. Personally I also think that dropping -ports is actually more important than increasing archive coverage right now as a release arch cannot depend on the unofficial archive. So I suggest to try dropping -ports as soon as possible, start rebuilding packages, and work on pushing patches to the main archive as required to rebuild all packages. >> A first idea would be to note when you dropped debian-ports >> from the buildds and then making sure all binaries uploaded before that >> are rebuilt, > > That is what I intended to do. Good. I'm willing to help by providing a list of packages uploaded before changing the buildds using projectb. >> but this misses at least arch:all packages. > > These are only the packages whose sources were uploaded from hurd-i386, > right? I believe there aren't many, just the hurdish ones. Yes, these should only be a few packages, but they are not easily looked up in projectb. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
