Re: Ocaml 3.08.0-2 ready to enter testing, hold back by 54+4 packages.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:27:35PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 06:36:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Normally, things will just percolate to testing correctly when new
> > > packages are uploaded.  There is no particular need to force the
> > > autobuilders to rebuild it in general.  If any particular arch has built
> > > it wrong, that's what a binary-only build is for.  Not to mention that
> > > things can't enter testing if their deps aren't met.
> > 
> > Well, if you have a better understanding of how the autobuilder infrastructure
> > work, then by all way, explain to us what is the right way to make sure things
> > work as they should.
> 
> I'm not saying that you lack the understanding, just that, in general,
> the autobuilder issue is orthogonal to proper control file lines.  If
> you write your control file correctly, the autobuilders will do the
> right thing in most cases.

Well, it used to break horribly before we adopted this system.

> > Again, this is post sarge discussion.
> 
> Well, it started because someone threatened to submit RC bugs against my
> package, though I have yet to see an instance where it actually does the
> wrong thing in sarge.

Yeah. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther