Re: The state of cross building

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 08:08:09PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> 
> We have cross compilers and crossbuild-essential-* packages in unstable
> for quite a while now. (Thanks to Matthias Klose.)

I see these haven't entered testing because:

* 183 days old (needed 5 days)
* crossbuild-essential-arm64/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: libc6-dev:arm64
* crossbuild-essential-armel/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: libc6-dev:armel
* crossbuild-essential-armhf/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: libc6-dev:armhf
   ....
* Invalidated by dependency
* Not considered
* Depends: build-essential dpkg-cross

Am I right in thinking this is because of how the testing scripts
work; is this something that is likely to be fixed in the future, or
is crossbuild-essential-* something that is only intended for unstable
and never for testing/stable?

Thanks,

						- Ted