Re: 185 Packages that look orphaned

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

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we could make a list of packages that should be autobuild in
> > contrib/non-free and distribute that to the buildds.
> This reasonable approach was discussed / suggested several times
> (just search the archive) and ended always in:  It's free.  Would you
> volunteer to do it?  I would love if someone would grab this hut.
> 
> > Or rather make a list of packages not to be build and allow
> > contrib/non-free in general, since the buildds have that mechanism
> > already.
> This would also work but this is kind of politics which concerns non-free.
> So if we try to go with the positive list approach above some people might
> be more happy ...

Add everything in non-free/contrib to the list and remove on request.

But I guess people would then complain how long it takes to check the
list. A list in wanna-build or quinn-diff would be better. Do it once
for all archs on a fast machine (auric).

> Kind regards
> 
>          Andreas.

MfG
        Goswin