Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:57:29AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Moving wanna-build to a mirror will mean that new source packages have
> > to be in the archive for at least one mirror pulse before they get
> > built. The m68k port has been working like that for a very long time
> > (Since wanna-build's inception until a few months before the woody
> > release), and that was the main reason (probably the only one) why it
> > couldn't keep up as well as the other architectures before that time.
>
> Or it could subscribe to the announce mailing list.
That would need quite some extra code to work. Wanna-build gets its
input from running quinn-diff, which parses the Packages- and
Sources-files. Doing this using the announce mailinglist would require
quite some work to parse such mails into something wanna-build can
fathom.
Of course, that doesn't mean it's impossible (this is Free Software,
everything is possible), just that it's easier to wait for the w-b
admins to do their job than to start setting up a w-b db of your own.
And, aren't we all lazy? ;-)
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