Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Tracking arch all packages
> --------------------------
> #246992 asked us to not delete arch all packages before the
> corresponding (if any) arch any packages are available for all
> architectures.  Example: whenever a new source package for emacs23
> gets uploaded the installation of the metapackage emacs_*_all.deb
> breaks on most architectures until the needed Architecture: any
> packages like emacs23 get built by the buildds. That happens because
> dak removes all arch: all packages but the newest one.
> 
> While this behaviour is easily documented and one can easily devise a
> fix ("just keep the arch all until the any is there, stupid"), the
> actual implementation of it contains several nasty corner cases
> which is why it took so long to fix.
> 
> Thankfully Torsten Werner took on this task during the meeting [2] and
> we are now in a position where we can merge his work.  We'll email
> before turning on this feature so that people can watch out of any
> strange cases which could cause problems.

Hurray !

Thanks, a lot.

Mike