On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:52:21AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > As for the build-depends, pbuilder is, as far as I've been able to > understand it, completely incapable of handling such a massive beast as > this. You can't point it easily at a custom repository in order to have it > pull from there. If this has changed recently, I'd love to hear it, but > when I was investigating this during the development of the packages I was > unable to do it. Furthermore, the packages I pulled were autobuilding just > fine on Ubuntu, so I had little reason to believe that they didn't have > proper build-depends for Debian. Indeed, very few of the packages ftbfs'ed, > and most of these were fixed within hours of being reported.
I should point out that the FTBFSing packages were ones that were repackaged from the ground up to be more sensible, not pure imports from Ubuntu. That being said, I agree with the thrust of David's mail. And, on my behalf, apologise to the release team for any disruption incurred to Etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
