Hi, I would like anyone to comment if I am right on these points.
o There's currently no standard way (for developers) to test the building of packages on public (alien arch) machines. [ What I have in mind is a s.th. like a chroot environment like on vore, but with some add-on to allow developers to satisfy (special) build dependencies (i.e., to install packages).] o Instead, the procedure is rather to upload the package and check if autobuilders catch up and add packages to the debian archive, and to rely on bug reports. o The several autobuilders are run by debian developers, using buildd.d.o, who then in turn upload successfully built binary packages to the debian archive. o There is no (standard) way to get autobuilder buildlogs. [I.e., for example, I really could not find a list of autobuilders. I know about vore(sparc), where it seems to be possible to access buildlogs via "http://vore.debian.org/buildlogs/<pkg>" (if it's not broken ;). So it seems currently a developer whose package does not build (or show up) on some alien <arch> -- and does not get useful bug reports -- is at a loss.] Thanks, Stephan -- Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
