Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 21:53 +0000 schrieb Magnus Therning:
>> Is there any other way of getting a binary build of 6.10 for amd64 into
>> experimental (e.g. binNMU) or is waiting for the auto-builder the only
>> way forward?
>
> A binNMU means re-building something on a buildd (i.e. an
> auto-builder), so that does not help us there.
Hmm, that's not how I read the Debian Wiki page on binNMU[1], but then I
might just have misunderstood it. I thought they existed to address
situations where the buildd _can't_ build a package.
>> I could build it myself, but then I'd also have to build all other libs.
>> I'm assuming that the presence of a binary ghc6 in experimental would
>> mean amd64 soon will catch up with i386 in number of available packages,
>> right?
>
> Unfortunately, not. The amd64 auto-builder is down because it crashes.
> It happened while building ghc6, but that just uncovered the issue, and
> until the problem has been identified and fixed, the auto-builder will
> be down, so it won’t build other packages either.
So the problem is worse than I thought. Not good.
> Someone could set up a private repository in the meanwhile to allow
> those on amd64 prepare new versions already – any volunteers?
I'm happy to run a few `debuild' commands, but unfortunately I don't
have a place with enough space to host stuff.
> PS: Magnus, I’m subscribed, so you don’t need to CC me. Thanks!
Ah, yes, that prompted me to finally get the Icedove add-on that adds a
reply-to-list command :-)
/M
[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU
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