On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:47:33AM +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> > If your package FTBFS on some architecture, then that is a bug. A bug
> > that was already there, it just was not noticed yet. In most cases the
> > bug is rather easy to fix, even for non porters as most of the
> > architecture specific FTBFS issues are due to wrong assumptions like
> > 32bit/64bit, little endian/big endian...
> Is there somewhere a list of "how to fix"? Something simple so that
> maintainers may do the right things as soon as a package is FTBFS?
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS
(linked from all bug reports reported by massive rebuild by Lucas)
The page is maintained in a collaborative manner: if you find a common
patter, please add it there. The page might also need some
re-organization. Any contribution is welcome.
Cheers.
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