On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:23:39PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > And how many of those package are uninstallable because the i386 folk > uploaded a binary-all version of a package and a binary-powerpc package > depends on the exact version of it. Heh. That's (kinda) the next project. :) What I'd *like* to setup for a while is a completely separate unstable derivative that is permanently consistent, and see if it's workable or not. The basic idea would be to only let packages into this derivative when: * they don't make any other packages uninstallable (unless said other packages are to be removed anyway) * they're available for all architectures * they don't have any other RC bugs (or they reduce the RC bug count) The concern I have is mainly whether it's actually possible to get all packages compiled for all architectures (ie, if the autobuilders are fast enough to do the compiling; and if all packages are going to actually be installable on all architectures they claim to be). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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