Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> writes:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>>> That said uploading missing binaries yourself is not the rigt way forward,
>>> official build daemons must be able to build it and you should work with
>>> buildd maintainers and porters to get your package built (and building).
>> 
>> I thought that statement didn't apply to non-free packages?
>
> This is also my understanding, Raphael has probably missed the indication of
> the package being in non-free.
>
> As a sidenote, and to promote the summary on http://wiki.debian.org/buildd a
> bit, there is a non-free buildd network. This has taken perfect care of my
> non-free packages so far, but it seems defunct for mips and armel these days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steffen

Non-free has autobuilders on an opt-in basis. Where legally possible
maintainers should opt-in and not build packages themself.

MfG
        Goswin