Re: General question about maintaining a package
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:49:40PM -0600, Matthew Twomey wrote:
> Must all packages be maintained primarily in i386 format?
No, a number of people upload on other architectures. There's an i386
autobuilder which picks up the differences.
> I have a SPARC platform and was considering the idea of contributing
> to Debian through package management. Would I need to set up an i386
> based system in addition to my Debian SPARC?
You might find it useful yourself (having more architectures available
to you is always handy), but it's not necessary. The source you upload
will be just as good as everyone else's.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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