Hello, I have some questions I would like to clarify for myself regarding some suggestions given within ara's [1] bug #290338 (ara: [m68k] FTBFS dh_testdir: I have no package to build). Thiemo Seufer suggests forcing the package to cause dep-wait onto build by wanting a build-dependency which could not be satistied for that arch [m68k for example]. Looking at w-b states explanation [2] this will require a human intervention and the dependency wont be satisfied anyway. So why bother humans, when this can be done automatically ? What is the whole idea behind this suggestion, am I missing something ? Since ara 1.0.8 has been in testing for long time, seems it has already been done what Goswin von Brederlow has suggested. Now, what is FTBFS and what are the best practices to contact the ftp-masters (obviously someone else had done the job for me ;-). Anyway we have ara 1.0.9 [3] at the alioth svn which solves these things accordingly (e.g. one can successfully build the source package on m68k) and will be rebuild soon after the last ocaml transition. [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ara [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/wanna-build-states [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ara/trunk/debian/?rev=0&sc=0 -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <danchev.fccf.net/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB
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