Building on dev machines (was: Re: [2002-03-03] Release Status Update (shattering myths about porting bugs))
This one time, at band camp, Randolph Chung wrote:
><ia64 and hppa plug>
>Most porting bugs we've encountered on hppa and ia64 are simple to fix.
>We do have slightly more compiler/toolchain problems than, say, i386,
>but in the vast majority of the cases the bug is a real porting bug
>(using non-standard C++ constructs, using outdated config.{guess,sub},
>etc). Debian is fortunate to have 2 ia64 and 2 hppa boxes on the
>*.debian.org network. All developers have access to these. Take a few
>minutes to make sure your package builds there too, or help fix the
>reported porting bugs.
></ia64 and hppa plug>
Forgive me if this is common knowledge, but I haven't found any
documentation regarding the developer machines in this respect: How do we
install build-depends on these remote machines to test builds? Is
pbuilder/sbuild installed for this purpose, or is there another way?
Followup to -private if required.
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