On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:22:54PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > For instance, until I built bsdgames-nonfree 2.16-1 (aka rogue) for > > several of the outstanding architectures myself just now, it was up to > > date only for my own architecture (i386 :-P) and two others (amd64 and > > powerpc). It's still behind on arm and mips, and has never been built > > at all on mipsel. I'd be happy to take care of them too, if I only > > knew where. (As far as I can tell, I can't log into any arm boxes at > > all, with debussy and rameau down and elara and europa restricted. As > > for mips(el), casals's motd forbids manual builds and vaughan has no > > chroots, so I seem to be out of luck there as well. Are there any > > machines I can use for this purpose? If not, could the relevant > > porters please take care of bsdgames-nonfree? Thanks.) > > I would tend to discourage maintainers of non-free packages from seeking > out additional porter builds at the last minute before release. If the > packages don't attract enough interest from users of those ports to be > maintained on an ongoing basis, it may be better to have outdated > binaries removed rather than shipping packages that aren't really going > to be supported.
Yeah. Certainly James has said to me on a number of occasions that he's more than happy to remove outdated binaries in non-free. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
