On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > just an idea from a completely uneducated person regarding buildd: > > What about if each freshly uploaded package which contains architecture any > packages would enter kind of a staging area first and buildds grab these > files from there. After each buildd was able to build a package the whole > set with all architectures enters unstable at once. > > This would get us rid of all those packages in unstable with "Does not build > on ..." and several dependencies could be easier solved. Moreover it would > enhance the preasure on developers to care for this kind of bugs. > > I guess this would be not really hard to implement.
You just described one of the many features of testing.
