Re: problems autobuilding contrib packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu> writes:

> 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

Talk to aba (Andreas barth) who manages the non-free buildds.

MfG
        Goswin