On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Tracking arch all packages > -------------------------- > #246992 asked us to not delete arch all packages before the > corresponding (if any) arch any packages are available for all > architectures. Example: whenever a new source package for emacs23 > gets uploaded the installation of the metapackage emacs_*_all.deb > breaks on most architectures until the needed Architecture: any > packages like emacs23 get built by the buildds. That happens because > dak removes all arch: all packages but the newest one. > > While this behaviour is easily documented and one can easily devise a > fix ("just keep the arch all until the any is there, stupid"), the > actual implementation of it contains several nasty corner cases > which is why it took so long to fix. > > Thankfully Torsten Werner took on this task during the meeting [2] and > we are now in a position where we can merge his work. We'll email > before turning on this feature so that people can watch out of any > strange cases which could cause problems.
Hurray ! Thanks, a lot. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org