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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable



On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:08:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Maintaining a buildd machine involves keeping a chroot environment
> relatively clean. 

Yup. Probably the best way of doing this is to debootstrap a new chroot
every day.

One of the other tricks is that in some cases you probably need to install
-dev packages from experimental, but in other cases you'd rather install
the -dev packages from unstable.

Experimental is kind-of "different" to unstable as far as buildding goes.

> [...]; as such,
> the burden on the buildd maintainer will be a lot higher than it is on
> an unstable buildd maintainer.

Yeah; reducing this by offloading it to the package maintainer is a
particularly good idea for experimental buildds (eg, mailing the build
logs to the maintainer rather than the buildd operator; and having the
maintainer sign the .changes files of successful builds).

Cheers,
aj

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