Re: new web page: overview of OCaml related packages / transitions
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:18:24PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:25:07AM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> > How does it handle different architectures? E.g. does it show a package
> > being built if it exists on at least 1 arch, or does it have to be built on
> > all arches? For transitions, we clearly need the latter. Also, a nice
>
> At the moment it only takes into account i386. I thought about that page
> to spot which packages need to be transitioned at all (i.e. which
> packages no one has yet taken care of). Questions like: why the package
> is not in testing yet can be answered by other means.
>
> Still:
>
> 1) the links about the relevant pages can and should be put, what do you
> think of a link for each package to its "explained excuses" page?
> Any other per-package link which can be useful?
What about a link to the PTS, so you get indirect access to everything
there ?
> 2) considering other architectures is still useful, for example ATM if
> someone uploads to powerpc and the rebuild breaks on i386 we will be
> fooled to consider the package as needing work, while it's not the
> case. I can implement a check which looks in all architectures and
> only takes into the account the more up to date. Once I had to
> implement it adding a warning like "hey, the package is not in sync
> on ..." would be easy to add
Maybe with a different colour code ?
> > thing for the TODO list would be to list the packages that are not up to
> > date, but have all of their dependencies satisfied on all arches.
>
> Are you thinking about pinging buildd maintainers to reschedule builds
> here? Isn't this information already available somewhere else, maybe for
> all packages in the archive?
Possibly, but it is always good to have a tool which does it in a way we
control :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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