Hi, Adam Borowski: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:16:41AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I think a possible solution is the plan we had inside Debian Ports which is >> to introduce a Britney instance within Debian Ports and hence be able to >> provide a Debian testing release. >> >> My dream would be to not to have the distinction between release >> architectures >> and ports architectures, but rather something like Tier I and Tier II >> architectures with the Tier II architectures sharing the characteristics of >> the Tier I architectures but without any support and without the buildds >> and porterboxes being maintained by DSA. > > It would be great -- I tried to make an unofficial Jessie release for x32, > but doing the equivalent of Britney turned out to be too hard. The main > reason was binNMUs: any out-of-archive binNMU conflicts with official > binNMUs that come later, there's no record of in-archive binNMUs that's > reasonably accessible to an outside observer (at least a non-DD, I wasn't > one at the time). > > [...] > > > Meow! > > [...] I noticed that both Adam and Adrian mentioned adding a Britney to ports.
* Setting up a britney2 instance in itself is a fairly easy task and I am happy to assist with that. * We may need additional functionality in Britney to improve the situation for ports (like being able to synchronise with the main archive). I am open to look at these requirements (if any). Obviously, a Britney will not solve all issues you might have, but I believe it can assist you with providing some stability. Thanks, ~Niels
