Re: linux-2.6 stuck at 2.6.16-12 on i386 and amd64

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Christian T. Steigies [Sat, 27 May 2006 11:33:41 +0200]:

> Thats nice, but does it explain the buildds (sometimes?) don't pick up
> packages? I had that with on of my own packages, amiga-fdisk. I did the last
> upload in january, for m68k of course, and waited three months for the i386
> buildd to build the amiga-fdisk-cross package, it never happened.
> BTW the powerpc buildd picked it up just fine.

This is because amiga-fdisk is marked as m68k/powerpc specific in P-a-s [1],
so no build of other architecture will ever try to build it. I'm also sure
many m68k porters would have been able to point you to this file if you'd
mentioned the problem before, since they know about its existence.

[1] http://cvs.debian.org/srcdep/Packages-arch-specific?root=dak&view=markup

HTH,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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