Re: More carefully qualify live-build.d.n time estimate?

[Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Baumann
<daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 09:23 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> "Depending on the options you have selected, the build takes about
>> between 5 and 20 minutes."
>
> that sentence is correct.. but not really useful as you pointed out.
> what we would be interested in here is a 'when does your build start'
> aka 'your estimated time in the queue'.
>
> however, that's not really something we can guess unless we'd have built
> the image already (depending on package selection, this can either take
> very long, or, if e.g. sid is uninstallable, can be very very fast
> despite having a long package list/big task). so, 'waiting time in
> queue' is not guessable.
>
> what we however could add is something like 'your place in the queue is
> 5' or 'there are 5 more builds ahead of you' (in proper english :).
>

I made a commit to git branch debian-next to address this request.

Thanks.