problems autobuilding contrib packages
Hello All:
I am continually running into a problem with one of my contrib packages
(ifeffit). Unfortunately it depends on two non-free packages to build
(pgplot5, latex2html). Some of the buildd machines build this package
without problems if they have the non-free sources in sources.list.
unfortunately, a number of architectures do not include the non-free
sources and for some architectures, it varies from machine to machine (arm
is one of these architectures). I have requested the inclusion of the
non-free sources but some buildd admins will just not include them and
others don't even reply. This means that I have to build all the
architectures by hand.
I have solved the problem for some architectures by getting my own build
cluster (amd64, arm, mips, sparc, alpha, powerpc) but I just don't have
them all.
Is there anyone there who has hppa or mipsel machines who would be
willing to build and upload those arch-specific binaries? I would be
happy to reciprocate with the architectures I have available to me.
It would be nice to have a long term solution to this (apart form
convincing upstream not to use non-free dependencies), but I at least want
to keep the package moving into testing.
Frustrated,
Carlo
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Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics
Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494
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