On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Andreas Barth wrote:
Hi, as all of you should know, packages in non-free are not build by the normal autobuilders for legal reasons. However, if a non-free package exist on different architectures, it need to be current to allow testing migration. On the other hand, there are plenty of packages in non-free that can easily be autobuild, because their license is "free-with-tiny-exceptions". For such packages, a group of Developers headed by Martin (zobel) and me provides some autobuilding infrastructure on most architectures.
Excellent! A systematic way of requesting this is welcome. A related issue is for the autobuilding of packages in contrib which need non-free packages. On some architectures, the buildds don't seem to include the non-free repositories and thus these packages won't build. Would it be possible to either consistently include the non-free repository on the regular buildd network or move the contrib building to this non-free buildd system?
Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 segre@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre segre@debian.org