Re: Build-depending on non-free package
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> * Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr <debian-devel@liska.ath.cx>, 2014-08-14, 10:08:
>>>> I've uploaded a package to contrib [1], that needs a non-free package
>>>> (pgplot5) as build dependency. While it builds nicely on my local pbuilder
>>>> (after adding non-free), it fails to build on the buildds [2].
>>>This is bug #690282.
>>
>> Hmm, so how do I build the remaining archs? I could do some on a
>> quemu-users...
>
> I don't think we want package built on QEMU in the archive.
Why?
> i386 packages can be built in a chroot. For anything else, you can ask on a
> porters' mailing list[0]; although it might not be worth the effort.
Since I am not a DD yet, this would mean that I have to ask for access
to all porter boxes, build the binaries, and then ask my sponsor to
upload them.
And to repeat this for every new version.
Since I already know how long it usually takes in Debian for steps like
these (f.e. the package in question took four months until it passed
NEW), I doubt that this is a prtactable solution.
>> if I do this once, do I have to do this always (otherwise the package would
>> not migrate due to missing builds)?
>
> That's right. The package won't migrate to testing it it's out of date on a
> release architecture.
This at the end leads to the situation that the package will be build
only for those platforms which I would count as worthwile -- so limiting
to linux-i386 and linux-x86.
Quite far from a perfect solution, but OK.
Best
Ole
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