Re: i386 build daemon on samosa

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> is it really necessary to rebuild NMUs for other archs for i386?

Yes.  There is no way to distinguish a package out of date for i386
because the source maintainer uses another architecture and a package
out of date for i386 because of an NMU for another architecture.

> I was really scared to see a chnagelog saying "binary only NMU for
> sparc" and every other entry saying, that it is a i386 .deb file.

This was a mistake on the part of whoever made these uploads, there is
absolutely no need for a source upload when it's a simple recompile
for one specific architecture.  Complain to whoever did them.

[People bitch at me because quinn diff doesn't know about the < 3% of
out of date i386 packages, then people bitch at me when I spend 3 days
rewriting quinn diff, setting up a build daemon and upload queue and
recompiling those packages.  Rock.  Hard Place.]

-- 
James