As people have probably noticed we've done a number of security advisories over the last few days, and doing those has made it clear that the way we currently do those will not scale with future release.
The problem is the number of architectures we have to support. For potato we have to recompile on 4 architectures, which is a hassle but doable. Besides having to wait for recompiles to finish we also frequently run into missing build-depends and have to wait for someone from DSA to install those for us, which means it might (worst case) take days before we have all the needed packages. With the extra architectures that woody will add that is simply not going to work anymore. Now it so happens there is an excellent solution for this: rbuilder. With rbuilder one can simply send an email to a build machine and it will install the build-depends and build the package automatically. This means we can spent our time a lot more effectively. This brings me to my point: with the release of woody the security team can no longer handle doing all the recompiles manually, and as a result of that we will only support architectures which have a working rbuilder setup that we can use. I realize that setting up rbuilder is not trivial, but given that woody won't be released soon there should be plenty of time for people to set those up. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
