Re: RM: nvidia-xconfig/testing [ia64] -- ANAIS; not useful on ia64
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 14:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> nvidia-xconfig is an X configuration utility that generates a
>> configuration file specifically for the proprietary non-free NVIDIA X
>> drivers. Since upstream only releases these drivers for i386 and
>> amd64, it's pointless to build this package on any other architecture.
>>
>> Could you please remove the old ia64 build of this package from testing?
> britney doesn't support partial removals from testing (they generally
> wouldn't help anyway as e.g. out-of-date checks are relative to
> unstable, not testing); this is generally achieved by ftp-master
> removing the old binary from unstable and the effect automagically
> propagating to testing.
> ftp-master: Please remove nvidia-xconfig_1.0+20080522-2/ia64 from
> unstable
> (I suspect they may want you to file a bug though).
Hm, reportbug told me to mail you instead. Let me go through reportbug
again and see if I can convince it to file a bug. I suspect the problem
was with how I answered some reportbug question.
Thanks, and sorry about that!
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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