On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:37:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:24:54PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > > At the moment, afaics, packages have only been uploaded to experimental > > > for i386 and powerpc. Please make sure they're building on all > > > architectures before even considering a major change like this. > > Sorry, but this is not easy... Currently my s/390 machine is busy > > making coffee ;-) > > <joke off>IMO this is quite difficult without experimental having > > autobuilder support. > > Yeah, no one said it was easy. But no one said you had to do it alone, > either: you need to get in contact with people yourself and get them to > help. Mailing lists, and the Debian contacts page will help you here, as > will getting on IRC and pestering for people with appropriate machines. If > this means you end up with -4 building on seven architectures, -3 build > on two, -2 built on one, and one architecture not built in experimental, > that's not necessarily a problem. Only having the packages built on two > architectures *is* a showstopper, though.
What about setting up a parallel autobuilder chain for experimental, maybe on people's home machines and such ? I tried (quickly) two times to install gnome 2/6 on ppc, and it failed because some binary:all component of the package was of a newer version that the binary:ppc one. Friendly, Sven Luther
