Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting
On 2009-11-19, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:16:41PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> On 2009-11-18, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
>> > I am a bit confused with respect to how buildd autosigning is required
>> > for this. It makes it sound somehow like it would affect porter binary
>>
>> Basicalyl, the turnaround time is too long if we have to wait for manual
>> buildd signings.
>>
>> For example, when we upload a new KDE, we usually upload a big chunk of
>> source packages (3-5) where package 1 breaks last package.
>>
>> Currently, we can upload all source packages built for amd64 and i386
>> and that way keep kde installable in unstable for more than 95 % of the
>> users.
>>
>> With 1 package signing per day (which is quite normal), we have 5 days
>> where kde by itself is uninstallable on all archs, if the buildds have
>> to build all packages by current means.
>
> Stupid question: If all these packages are interdependent and need to be
> built the same day, why not upload them as a single package ?
It is only most of the time only for new Y releases in X.Y.Z, very
rarely for new Z versions and never for the debian revision. And
it is not small packages we are talking about.
/Sune
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