Re: many packages held for alpha

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> > The main problem is
> > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the
> > archive is unbuildable on Alpha.
> 
> See your private e-mail.  I may have a handle on this beast.  Won't
> burden the rest of the list with my speculation unless it pans out :-).

Bob's speculation did pan out and we now have a working cmake! Thank
you Bob, you have enabled Alpha to survive another day.

The build daemons are now working hard out building the almost 1000
source packages we had got behind on Alpha.

Cheers
Michael.