On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:56:56PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:28:09AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > >> the powerpc buildd is a dual G4 greater then 400Mhz. i don't think > >> another powerpc buildd will make much difference. fixing broken > >> packages on the other hand will. > > > >Blaming it on broken packages doesn't explain why powerpc buildd is > >so far behind. > > Well, it can do. Certainly the ARM buildd often finds itself unable to make > progress because all the unbuilt packages are either broken themselves or > depend on something else that is. It would be interesting to redo the > statistics for out-of-date package percentages so that packages with RC > bugs were excluded. If I understand the problems with the ARM buildd, the problem is not with the packages, but instead GCC, which is a touch flaky on the ARM. I can see a lot of packages missing build-depends or something that will kill them on all the builders, but how many packages actually have bugs specific to one architecture? -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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