I know this question (or a similar one) comes up periodically both here and on -devel. Unfortunately, I have to ask it again, because I can't find a complete solution to my problem. Because I still use it, I adopted ncompress a few months ago when it was orphaned. I spent a night or two and closed all of the open bugs, cleaned up its compile warnings, updated the manpages and brought the packaging up to current standards. Since there hasn't been an "upstream" release in 10 years (!) or so, I'm essentially the upstream maintainer now from Debian's perspective. As a side-note, this package is non-free because of issues surrounding the LZW patent, not because its license is non-free. Anyway, now that I've done all of this cleanup, I've realized that the package won't move into testing until I build it on all of the architectures it was built on for woody. Right now, according to the excuses list, I am missing alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc, s390 and sparc. I know that in order to take care of this, I will have to build ncompress by hand on each of these architectures. What I can't figure out is exactly how to do that. According to the machines list, I can get access to a machine running sid for hppa, powerpc, sparc and mipsel. This leaves alpha, arm, ia64 and s390 before ncompress can move into testing, and then also m68k and mips before I can support all of the official architectures. What am I supposed to do with all of those architectures for which no sid environment exists? I notice that some of the machines have (+chroots) listed. Is this the way I can build for sid on a machine running woody? If so, where can I find instructions on how to do it? Thanks for the advice, KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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