On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:51:00AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Um... no. This is *porter* work; one does not have to be a buildd admin to > > analyze a build failure to see whether the package belongs in P-a-s, and > > there's no reason that the buildd admins alone should bear the > > responsibility for figuring out whether a permanent build failure should be > > fixed or ignored. (Maintainers probably need to be involved in this > > process, but usually maintainers don't have the requisite knowledge about > > all our ports to make informed decisions on their own.) > Sorry, then I must have misunderstood the nature of the P-a-s file. > But then, I always thought of it as a relict that probably should be > gotten rid of once one believes that porters and maintainers can sort it > out by themselves. It's the file that controls whether wanna-build feeds a given package to the buildds for that architecture, and it's also used in calculating the statistics on how an architecture is keeping up -- so figures directly into whether an arch is a release candidate. > As for "somebody else": Attached is a patch for the build stuff that I > think I have figured out. Ok. Here's some feedback on some that I either disagree with, or don't see enough rationale for. (This is why, ideally, the process should involve the porters and the maintainers...) > +dfsbuild: i386 alpha powerpc amd64 # [ANAIS] debian from scratch installer Seems like it should be portable without too much trouble to other architectures, if there was porter interest? > -grub2: !hppa !ia64 m68k # bootloader > +grub2: !hppa !ia64 !m68k !alpha !mips !mipsel !s390 !sparc # bootloader for i386/powerpc [?] The medium-term goal is for grub2 to be portable to a range of platforms, AIUI; I wouldn't close the door on this yet... > +%helix-player: i386 powerpc sparc # [ANAIS] Seems like this is a candidate for porting. > +ree: i386 amd64 ia64 kfreebsd-i386 hurd-i386 # reads ROM from /dev/mem, i386/amd64/ia64-specific The description says this package "can also extract font data from video card ROMs." Are we certain this is specific to i386/amd64/ia64? > +rootskel-gtk: alpha amd64 i386 powerpc sparc # [ANAIS] udeb for graphical debian-installer Just because it's only built for these archs now doesn't mean this has to be true long-term. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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