[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) writes: > One issue that we may wish to address before releasing sarge is that > some arch-dependent non-free packages are behind because the > autobuilders only touch main and porters only sporadically build them > for their architectures.
One problem with this is that for non-free packages it is unclear if it is even allowed to build them. Ofhand I know of one (pine) which may never be build on any arch. Why it is in debian as source only package instead of a pine-src package (deb containing current sources like other packages have) is beyond me. The other (much smaller) problem is that contrib/non-free packages can Build-Depend on things outside of debian and autobuilding would fail. Thirdly some people are opposed to run non-free software and forcing buildds to run it doesn't feel right. It would be nice to have a list of packages in contrib/non-free that may legally be autobuild and that can be autobuild with free software alone. > 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 I scheduled bsdgames-nonfree for build on magix (inofficial mipsel buildd). Its currently building k3d and bsdgames-nonfree will be next. See http://www.buildd.net/index-mipsel.html for its status. > 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.) > > BTW, thanks as well to whoever built bsdgames-nonfree 2.16-1 for amd64 > and powerpc. The amd64 wanna-build includes contrib/non-free ignoring the fact that packages might not legally be build. Once amd64 enters sid that probably changes unless the above mentioned whitelist can be made. > -- > Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. MfG Goswin
