On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:03:12PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It's in Debian, and it's easy to use and understand. If it doesn't
> > diverge too far from the sbuild actually on svn.cyberhqz.com, it's also
> > good enough to give you a working setup for non-debian systems. IOW,
> > it should be close enough to the actual thing to be useful for the
> > general public, but cannot be close enough to the actual thing to be
> > useful for official build daemons.
> 
> Except it isn't working. Since a long time it wasn't able to build
> zsh, zsh-beta, bash3 for some unknown reason. It just deadlocks.

I think there's a fix for that in svn, not sure though.

> Now its worse since the debian sbuild won't interact nicely with the
> wanna-build/buildd anymore due to interface changes and the binNMU
> feature.
> 
> So now the sid sbuild only works standalone. That is a turn for the
> worse.

That's only true at this very moment. Resync with svn, done.

[...]
> It just pains me that Debian does not include all the software to
> build Debian.

Sure it does. It just doesn't include the software that Debian uses to
automatically build packages, but that's not the same thing.

After all, you can build packages in an automated fashion using, e.g.,
pbuilder; and people do actually do this all the time (where else would
I have gotten those FTBFS bugs on doc-linux-nl from? That's an arch:all
package).

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