On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Consider the following: > > A good starting point would be the popularity-contest data. Anything > used in the last half year gets build. > > Every package thats not compiled is replaced by a dummy package > stating why it isn't autobuild, explaining the problem. There is no problem. m68k can still keep up most of the time (hardware problems aside), and at times when this was not possible, we've always been able to add more autobuilders. > When installed the dummy package (or a locally build version of the > missing deb) would get reported by popularity-contest popcon is not an essential package, for obvious reasons. I also don't want to force people to tell us what packages they want to have for us to compile it. Also, things like this would invalidate the statistics popcon generates, because it would no longer be generated by an evenly distributed subset of our users. Moreover, some people just want to try out things. If they have to compile it themselves before they can even think of running the software, they could just as well be running NetBSD. [...] -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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