Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

[apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris)]

In article <[🔎] 87hfx1iy2b.fsf@garfield.complete.org>, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> writes:
>> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>> > around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs.  But
>> nobody > goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for
>> i386!  So if > I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha,
>> the Alpha will have > the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc
>> and m68k too, but i386 > will be obsolete!  Fix anybody?
>> 
>> I have been compiling the enscript package for i386, which Hartmut
>> Koptein maintains on powerpc. So there are people doing this, it
>> just isn't widespread at the moment.

> Excellent.  Is there some sort of automated mechanism like the other
> platforms have?  (That is, packages get automatically build on these
> other platforms)?

I believe people use quinn-diff plus dbuild plus god knows ?

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