Bug#390862: Needs a new source to build?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:46:03PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
> 
>  ISTR that when I discussed this on #debian-kernel, I was told that one
>  of the problem is that linux-2.6 is already very long to build on x86
>  (due to the numerous flavors).

So what ? Or maybe this is an excuse for asking for a donation of a more
powerful x86 autobuilder hardware, maybe one that could handle arch-all
packages too, and thus allow for discarding the binaries uploaded and have
everything autobuilt.

>  Perhaps it makes sense to build one type of kernels in a separate
>  source package, for example all bigmem flavors in a linux-bigmem
>  source?

Plase don't, this would only complicate issues more for future security
builds.

Friendly,

Sven Luther