On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<[email protected]> wrote: > The powerpc platform is not officially supported in the archives, but it > exists as a port and is without a doubt useful for many users. > > However, the platform is in a sad state for karmic, almost all builds I have > submitted as of late have failed, and the FTBFS list is a mile long. It is > my firm impression that the powerpc port has deteriorated during the last > releases. I do not myself have a powerpc machine to do testbuilding, and so > debugging becomes a very slow and tedious affair. Perhaps someone with > access to powerpc platform could be persuaded to do something about it? > > With so many packages to fix, it is important to start at the bottom nodes > of the dependency graph. A web based tool to visualize the ancestors (and > children) of a particular package, along with their build status would be > extremely useful. Perhaps we could have a project to create such a tool? > > Any thoughts on this?
There was a peculiar problem with buildd chroots which has been recently fixed (only yesterday I believe). So the build failures because of the problem in installing texlive-* packages should be solved now. May be someone from archive admin team can provide more info on this. Onkar -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
