Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> writes:

> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 
>      . . .
> 
> > 	And I can see people wanting to locally rebuild packages for
> >  security reasons, including arch: all ones.
> 
>      Another data point:  At least one European Debian user routinely
> downloads source packages and builds his own binaries because, in his
> opinion, most debian revisions are trivial fixes or packaging changes,
> so downloading the .orig.tar.gz once, and only the .diff, .dsc, and
> .changes files for subsequent debian versions is much more economical
> of his slow and expensive connectivity.

So am I since I download one source and build 3 archs. Well, sometimes
I do, sometimes I don't. Only installed packages and I don't update my
non-i386 systems very often.

MfG
        Goswin