Re: (gnu)chess, I'm building it
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:21:31AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > > >A week might be conservative. I've been building the package for
> > > >2 or 3 days now and haven't made much of a dent. I'll kill the
> > > >build; there's quite a bit to do now.
> > >
> > > Yeah, it takes several days on ARM too.
> >
> > It takes 9 hours on a fast[1] i386, easily dwarfing most other
> > packages[2]. Unfortunately the maintainer isn't overly responsive to
> > this (see #102272 etc.) and Debian issues in general (see BTS, his
> > packages etc.).
> >
> > IMNSHO this package should be ignored[3] until the maintainer can be
> > convinced to do something other than a grand imitation of an ostrich.
> > If you build it once, you're merely committing your architecture to
> > keeping it up to date.
>
> I've split gnuchess into gnuchess and gnuchess-book, the later
> containing the bookfile that is so painstakenly generated, but in a
> arch indep format. Upon install it gets converted to the hosts
> architecture (just takes a few seconds).
Neat.
> I submitted a bugreport with patch for gnuchess in case anyone wants
> to look at it. It fixes all (?) of the reported bugs on gnuchess and
> the arch-indep build only takes a few minutes.
>
> Should I do a NMU unless the maintainer reacts in the next few hours?
I'd say wait a few days before you do an NMU. I don't think gnuchess is
missed that much on m68k that it requires a package hijacking in case the
maintainer is not available for the (long) weekend...
I think there are some rules for NMUs, 3 days, 1 week for packages which are
not base/standard? I did not look the numbers up, when when you submitted a
bug with a patch, that should be all that is required. And if there is no
new package say within a week, I would bother the maintainer again and maybe
do an NMU. But this is IHMO, YMMV.
Well, looking at the bugs, it probably does not matter very much if you wait
another 5 or 10 days... Very bad karma score:
-101.75 Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
Christian
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