Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:06:50PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:57:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I would rather have maintainers spend time improving their packages instead of wasting it trying to figure out why some architecture fail/refuses to

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't stop it being for anyone else either... I agree. Perhaps a new rule should be introduced, that when a

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:42:53AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't stop it being for anyone else either... I agree.

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Luk Claes
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't stop it being for anyone

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Casadevall
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful. I have the X11 libraries on my NSLU2, which lacks any graphical output, but I use it as an X11 server. That being said, I can see the point

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful. I have the X11 libraries on my NSLU2, which lacks any graphical output,

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful. I have the X11 libraries on my NSLU2, which lacks

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Aug 06 10:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful.

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't stop it being for anyone else either... I agree. Perhaps a new rule should be introduced, that when a porter flag a package as NFU on a given

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-05 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Back in the Old Days when I ran an Alpha buildd (years ago), things never got automatically marked not-for-us; that happened manually. After asking around on IRC a few weeks ago, there is no longer consensus that's how it happens now. Does anybody know?

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:21:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: This seems to happen to me most often on the s390 build daemon, and has happened with at least 3 to 5 different packages now. (Current example is hpodder). In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it happen elsewhere. It seems to