Re: Future releases of Debian
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:52, David Z Maze wrote:
> "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:25:16PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> >> me too! any package that doesn't build on m68k or arm is broken and
> >> needs to be fixed, even if it works on x86 by chance!
> >
> > So, are you volunteering to help those of us without access to either of
> > the above architectures with "bugs" found in our packages?
>
> But Debian has ~public machines for pretty much every architecture.
> I'd say "look on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi";, except that's
> down; I can at least point you at section 4.4 of the Developer's
> Reference, though that doesn't say a whole lot beyond this. I admit
> that this doesn't necessarily help for testing installers, but for
> your own packages it should be straightforward for you to do testing
> and bugfixing even on architectures you don't personally own a machine
> for.
You walked right into that one... :-)
His point throughout this thread is that people waiting for DAM
approval do NOT have access to those machines and are thus hampered in
their abilities to maintain packages.
Cheers,
Jens
PS: Thanks to all the developers. No matter what, Debian is a great
thing.
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