My nightly dbuild cron job has started to fail. I haven't had time to investigate why, and before I allocate the time, I'd like to offer the package for someone else to maintain and run. I don't have the time to do a good job on it: either for developing the script itself (it has needed a rewrite for a long time, preferably in a better language than /bin/sh) or for running it on a Debian source mirror and examining the results. Dbuild is a tool for unpacking Debian source packages and building Debian binary packages from them. It has competition: the buildd daemon that is actually being used to compile many of the architectures being worked on by Debian. Unlike dbuild, buildd actually works well. :) Because of this situation, before anyone else adopts the package, the question should be asked whether there is any point in keeping the package alive. Specifically: Is anyone using dbuild? If no-one gives a reason not to, within a week or two, I plan to withdraw the package from the archive. (Hypothetical users are not reason enough.) There is no point in inflating the archive with unused packages, especially something that is probably only useful for Debian developers. (Killing dbuild would give me ample free time to, say, finish off the Debian source statistics program rewrite. :-)
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