Ansgar Burchardt, le Fri 20 Apr 2012 16:55:56 +0200, a écrit : > 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.
Ok, pulseaudio was NMUed, and I have circumvented the issue with gcc/binutils (#629866) in eglibc, which will be uploaded once the mips issue is resolved, I guess. In the meanwhile, that's the only package that buildds need to fetch from debian-ports ATM. > >> 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). It's now in DELAYED/0, agreed by maintainer. > In any case I believe you need to be more aggressive on getting the > needed patched in the official archive. Right. I don't like stepping on other maintainers, but we'll probably have to. > >> 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. Well, for now that would be "all" :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
