Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adeodato Simó <d...@net.com.org.es> writes: > >> * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]:
>> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source >> packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. >> kernel module packages). With this, ia32-libs could become a small >> source package containing scripts that would download the necessary >> binary packages at build time, and would encode in a header the employed >> versions; then, source for those versions would not be removed from the >> pool. > > Buildds don't have internet access in their build > environment. ia32-libs may not download anything at build time. Plus > rebuilding would give widely unreproducible results. AFAIK you're talking about 2 architectures, so building them in another way than on the buildds should not be hard. I guess you mean unpredictable instead of unreproducible as building with the same versions as mentioned in the build log should be reproducible or ia32-libs better just gets removed from the archive altogether... Why would it be unpredictable, what issues do you see? > Currently the size makes regular uploads too costly imho. And the > security team is still not supporting ia32-libs. I even did prepare an > security upload for etch last year that they only had to sponsor but > never heard back from the team. A good reason to not just shoot any proposal to make that easier IMHO. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
