Re: using build profiles breaks debian-ports

2015-07-17 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:31:53 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Glaser t.gla...@tarent.de wrote: using build profiles breaks debian-ports architectures, all of them: http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=x264 [...] So this means that because someone added the build profiles thing,

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steven Chamberlain (2013-11-28 01:04:56) On 27/11/13 17:58, Johannes Schauer wrote: http://mister-muffin.de/p/Gid8.txt One can see that now the amount of source packages which is needed to build the rest of the archive is only 383. So, there are 383 packages that share

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Dmitrijs Ledkovs (2013-11-28 01:15:06) On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: I also find it interesting to see openjdk-7 listed but not gcj; or even gcc-4.8. Was this computed for jessie or sid? I guess implicit relationships are not

A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, the following is a report of a successful implementation of what I have been talking about with Niels Thykier during debconf13. The question was how important it is for a source package to be compilable or exist in the first place given an incomplete port which is in the process of being

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting peter green (2013-11-28 01:12:57) One problem with these metrics is that you get source packages whose importance is artifically inflated because of the way our source packages work. If anything in a source package needs x then the whole source package has to build-depend on x.

on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Peter, Quoting peter green (2013-10-27 01:11:24) Johannes Schauer wrote: Until these two issues are fixed we will not be able to get an algorithmic answer to the question of what constitutes the minimum required set of packages. There is also the complication of what I will call

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, (I was not able to find the debian-ports list on lists.debian.org (so I subscribed via email) did I just miss it?) Quoting Steven Chamberlain (2013-10-23 22:04:59) I had a play with the 'botch' tool (see description[1]) for determining build order when bootstrapping an architecture. botch