On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:52:49PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > I have a dilemma. > > I need to orphan a package that's specific to the ARM architecture, > because my Netwinder broke down (We had some severe power spikes about > a month ago, which killed it). I no longer have an ARM build machine. > > The Debian Developer's Reference says to change the maintainer to > "Debian QA Group". Since I no longer can build the package, I also > cannot upload a version with updated maintainer information. > > Have I misunderstood what I need to do? Or do I have to rebuild the > package in order to change its maintainer information?
You could try using one of the debian arm boxes available to maintainers. I think arm.debian.org is one such. Friendly, Sven Luther