On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:16:39PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther wrote: > > You again forget that debian is not x86 only, or do you expect Matthias > > to have access to machines of all the supported arches ? > > > Right. > > Besides, I don't want to do this on my own, I want to do this as part of > Debian. I don't yet know enough about the setup of testing-proposed-updates > and the whole build structure in general to see clearly what needs to be done > to automate the process, or indeed whether the people responsible for it > would be OK with enhancing that along the lines of my proposal; my impression > is that t-p-o is mostly processed manually at the moment, like > stable-proposed-updates is, and it's under-used (t-p-o/main has a whopping > TWO source packages). That may be a chicken-and-egg problem.
If testing-proposed-updates is really functional as Anthony claims, then it is just a question of uploading to testing-proposed-updates instead of unstable, which is a simple change in the changelog file. The rest should happen automatically. There are still some issues that need discussed, but i spoke about them in a separate mail, and will not repeat them here. Friendly, Sven Luther