Re: Fwd: HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Christian and I discussed this and decided on that simply because it
> > > should be fixed and it's extremely easy to fix. I don't think it's
> > > a big deal if it doesn't get fixed except that there is no excuse not
> > > to fix it.
> >
> > Lack of available effort ? Even simply recompiling packages takes
> > effort.
>
> Amen! I've been fixing some of these. Not all the packages build cleanly on
> my machine. Those that do, I often have to download tens of MB's of source
> over a 28.8 link (I would have the source, but I don't mirror
> project/orphaned..). Yes, these are trivial bugs to fix, but that doesn't
> mean fixing 100 of them is easy.
Ever consider doing this on va.debian.org (or even on master!)? We have a
loaded PPro200 with a full mirror. No sense burning bandwidth :>
We no longer have a debian computational crisis, master sits idle for all
but an hour every day and va cruises with a load of .5 (cvs!)
Jason
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: