On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:16:41PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-11-18, Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@deb.at> wrote: > > I am a bit confused with respect to how buildd autosigning is required > > for this. It makes it sound somehow like it would affect porter binary > > Basicalyl, the turnaround time is too long if we have to wait for manual > buildd signings. > > For example, when we upload a new KDE, we usually upload a big chunk of > source packages (3-5) where package 1 breaks last package. > > Currently, we can upload all source packages built for amd64 and i386 > and that way keep kde installable in unstable for more than 95 % of the > users. > > With 1 package signing per day (which is quite normal), we have 5 days > where kde by itself is uninstallable on all archs, if the buildds have > to build all packages by current means.
Stupid question: If all these packages are interdependent and need to be built the same day, why not upload them as a single package ? It's even easier now, with the new source formats. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org