Re: Rebuilding packages on *all* architectures

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 06:07:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>The binary is needed because otherwise the -all packages would be
>>missing and there would be no deb package in the archive holding the
>>source in.
>
> That's an implementation issue, not an absolute. An alternate
> implementation would be for all autobuilders to build -all packages, but
> for only the first to be accepted.

Big waste of time we don't have. It should not be to hard to modify
the buildd system to tell the first buildd to build a package to
include -all debs. It is one of the features planed in the
multibuild/buildd interface (which is still largely vapourware).

> Mike Stone

MfG
        Goswin