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Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga



Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I don't think it would hurt if maintainers whose packages are in this state
>> would email the relevant <arch>@buildd.debian.org addresses and cc:
>> debian-release on the message -- now, rather than waiting for the buildds to
>> be fixed.  Hopefully, this would save the buildd maintainers the trouble of
>> having to look through all the build logs to find the ones related to this
>> breakage, and they can requeue them as a batch.
>
> So I've done this, but I am skeptical about how much it will help.
>
> For example, if even *one* buildd maintainer doesn't requeue with some
> kind of promptness, then the only way to deal with it will be to make
> a new upload, which will force a recompile everywhere.

You can also find someone with that arch and get a manual build
uploaded.

MfG
        Goswin



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