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Re: Packages not making it into testing



On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:24:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Incidentally, could I request one change to the format of
> update_output.txt that would make problems in testing easier to debug
> (unless there's some other set of information I don't know about)? I'd
> like to see the reports of uninstallability for each package mention all
> architectures, to help distinguish between problems on one or two
> architectures and problems on everything. 

The problem with that is it'd take a copious amount of time, and a copious
amount of memory, and testing already takes too much of both. Generally,
if the problem doesn't occur on alpha, it's specific to one or two arches.

Cheers,
aj

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