[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] I've just completed running my dbuild script on a mirror of hamm. I could build 931 source packages successfully and failed to build 195. The log files of the failed builds are in <http://www.iki.fi/liw/dbuild/dbuild-logs/>, for those interested. There's still some problems with my build environment, so not all those packages are buggy. Some general comments: * Source dependencies would be nice, but we can do without them for the time being by using a build machine that has lots of stuff installed. * There are a number of packages that need stuff outside their own source package to build. For example, doc-linux needs an LDP mirror, and some packages seem to need Tcl/Tk source, or kernel source. * A few packages still use su or sudo or some similar program directly in the debian/rules file. They need to be fixed to let dpkg-buildpackage do the become-root thing instead. * Some packages need conflicting tools to build. For example, some needed tk7.6-dev, some tk8.0-dev, I think. I don't know how to solve this. * On the whole, the situation (on a i386) is pretty nice. (Those who have been doing automatic builds as parts of the porting efforts can probably add more comments to this.) dbuild is available at <http://www.iki.fi/liw/debian/>. I just made version 1.6, which sports (among other things) an updated manual page. I haven't uploaded it even to experimental, because I don't want to crowd out other people's efforts at auto-building scripts. Lars who is desperately trying to fill debian-devel with something else than licensing flame wars
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