porting questions
This is a re-post of questions I posted to debian-mentors several days
ago. I received no replies, but in a private e-mail another developer
said that he'd asked the same questions before and never received a
definitive answer.
Trying to play the part of the conscientious maintainer, I wanted to make
sure my package would build on all platforms, and correct any errors
that might prevent it from building correctly. Since I don't have access
to architectures other than i386, I went to the list of Debian machines
to see if any would be suitable.
Problem #1: vore seems to be the only machine with a sid chroot
available. Since my package Build-depends on packages that are only in
sid, it's not possible to test the build against potato or woody.
Problem #2: even on vore in the sid chroot, my package Build-depends on
many packages that are not installed, and I of course can't install them
as a normal user.
Is there any way for non-porters to port their own packages using
Debian's machines? How should a person overcome the above obstacles?
Joshua
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Joshua Haberman <joshua@haberman.com>
University of Puget Sound <joshua@debian.org>
http://www.reverberate.org <jhaberman@ups.edu>
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