Hi there, there are some news from the autobuilding front that may be of your interest: State of the software packages used on the buildds ================================================== For those who wonder where the UTF-8'ed build logs come from that appeared on buildd.debian.org since about December last year: some buildds have switched to use the package builder sbuild from the archive. This is part of the plan to unify those buildds to use one common set of software, instead of every buildd admin using the one sbuild/buildd combination he inherited from someone. sbuild, buildd and wanna-build were originally shipped together but only sbuild was under ongoing maintainance in the archive. Now, due to our need to update buildd fairly frequently for Lenny, the pair we currently use is available on [0], not in the main archive. Currently those buildds are constantly updated to the new version: goetz, goedel (both alpha), lafayette (hppa), puccini (i386), brahms (i386), malo (powerpc) and praetorius (powerpc). We look to expand this soon but sadly due to the many changes to sbuild over the years the tools the buildd admins use to sign logs will break with the new version. New buildds =========== Thanks to Arthur Loiret and Thibaut VARENE we got a new hppa buildd up and running. It's hosted at ESIEE Paris and serves as an additional unstable and security autobuilder. Thanks to Mattias Wadenstein (maswan) and the Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden we also finally got a 64-bit capable autobuilder for PowerPC. This was a precondition (together with 64-bit support on the i386 autobuilders) to enable those parts of the gcc and glibc testsuites which test 64-bit support within normally 32-bit userspace. But it also serves as a fairly quick unstable builder. Of course a kudos also to our sysadmins who have been quicker in setting them up than we could possibly deploy our software on them. Also they donated brahms as a KVM domain to use. New buildd maintainer ===================== Last but not least we welcome Arthur Loiret who will help us to keep the alpha buildds well and humming. Old bits ======== I would like to communicate again the current addresses for wanna-build- related requests as already sent to -project by Adeodato Simó[1]: | Regarding requests for give-backs, etc., this is the new state of | things: | | * Packages-arch-specific: still bug against ‘buildd.debian.org’ | | * Bin-NMUs: still debian-release@lists.debian.org | | * Chroot problems, package priority issues: still <arch>@buildd.debian.org | | * Give-backs and dep-waits: debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org | (including requests for experimental, but please mark them as such) Kind regards, Philipp Kern [0] https://buildd.debian.org/apt/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/03/msg00096.html -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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