Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:03:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:19:23PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I'm trying to work out why package *section* matters at all. Package name
> > is a bit odd, too, but including the section in there is just totally whack.
>
> Consider that libraries have their own section. Certain package sections
> are (on the whole) more central to the dependency graph than others, so it's
> to our advantage to order those first to reduce the need for give-backs or
> dep-waits.
libs, devel and some others makes sense, but the others all have a
defined order too according to recent discussion on debian-release.
Of course this is never apparently when things are running smoothly with
all the buildds.
Is there anything that can be done to help with arm/mipsel?
I think I read that new machines/owners aren't welcome currently anyway.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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