Re: tth_3.13-1_m68k.deb request for build and upload

[Ian Maclaine-cross <iml@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:58:05AM +1100, bounce-debian-68k=cts=debian.org@lists.debian.org wrote:
> >Dear m68k porters,
> >        Package tth has not been built and uploaded on an m68k for
> >many months.  Please would someone build
> >        tth_3.13-1_m68k.deb
> >from the latest sources and upload it.
> 
> You've got the mailing list wrong, its debian-68k.
> 
> This list is also wrong, the porters hang out on m68k-build.

Thanks for the hint.
 
> tth is non-free? 

Yes, tth is non-free.

> If you could convince the author to make tth free, it would
> actually be part of debian and thus be automatically built by the build
> daemons. 

The author very definitely does not wish to make tth free.

> Recently there has been a shortage of working m68k machines. Also
> there is a permanent shortage of m68k maintainers. 

> Since tth is non-free, I guess it was on the bottom of the list of
> whoever is looking at non-free packages when he finds the time. 
> Is somebody still looking at non-free for m68k nowadays?

My understanding is that there is no one who is taking care of the
non-free packages. The autobuilders were turned off on non-free last
year sometime because some packages did not permit compilation for all
architectures.  It would be nicer to pull packages prohibiting
compilation for some architectures out of non-free.  Tth and other
packages were stranded in unstable for a year because migration from
unstable to testing requires all previous builds be up to date. I hope
to find out what has to be done here sometime. 

Begging for builds and uploads on tth is an attempt to get the same recent
version into testing across all architectures. 

> You Build-Depends list gcc. gcc is in the build-essentials list.

Thanks, I will fix this in the next version.

> Other than that, it built fine.

Thanks. 
Please would you upload the build. Thanks if you have already. 

> Christian

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Regards,
Ian Maclaine-cross (iml@debian.org)