Steve Langasek wrote: >On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software >> that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful. >> I have the X11 libraries on my NSLU2, which lacks any graphical output, but >> I use it as an X11 server. > >The argument for not building various packages on s390 is that s390 has *no >hardware*, so anything that depends on local hardware to be useful has no >purpose on s390. > >That doesn't apply for hpodder, which is not a hardware interface; but >that's a plausible explanation for why the package was put in NFU, if the >buildd maintainer thought it was hardware-dependent.
It would be nice if buildd admins told people they were doing it, of course, so that maintainers don't have to guess why their packages mysteriously aren't being built... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
