On Wednesday 16 March 2005 06:20, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another architecure that isn't keeping up to the 98% mark has a buildd > > mainainter who insists (to the point of threating) that I don't build > > and upload packages to help the build with its backlog and lack of > > requeueing. > > So? A buildd maintainer doesn't have a veto over other people > uploading binary builds of packages. W-b and buildd's do not have a > monopoly over binary NMUs; the procedures are well documented in the > Developer's Reference. Seems to me that either the package maintainer > or the porting team should be consulted, but given that, the buildd > has no special status or authority. It's a nice thing, but it's not > the only way to upload binary NMUs.
Additionally, this hints at hidden problems of this architecture which - in the worst case - might lead to Debians sudden inability to support a really-stable release on this architecture. Regardless of the outcome of the post-Vancouver fallout, this is a problem that should be tackled before blessing that arch as "stable". Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir �ber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15