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Re: GNOME packages not building on ARM



Hello Kenshi,

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:45 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
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> Hi Adam,
> 
> At Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:39:48 -0400,
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Just wondering, anyone know why a few new GNOME packages are building
> > everywhere but on ARM?  I see evolution 2.2 and its dependencies
> > (gal2.4, gtkhtml3.6, evolution-data-server1.2) just not being built for
> > our platform, and bjorn.haxx.se showing that they'll go into testing
> > just fine without us.
> > 
> > Is this a deliberate exclusion because of the autobuilder shortage?  I'm
> > building these now and plan to upload...
> 
> Official arm autobuilder network lacks some machines
> temporary. (But I dunno when they back)
> So there are still many needs-build packages
> (http://buildd.debian.org/stats/?arch=arm&state=Needs-Build) than
> other architectures.
> 
> Personally I'm building and uploading some packages on my unstable
> buildd since few weeks ago.

Thank you, this is a big help.  But the issue remains: packages are
being admitted into testing without being built on ARM, it's almost as
if developers have already made us into second-class citizens *before*
the sarge release.

Well, I'll try to follow you and build some of those packages as well.

-Adam
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