On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:47:09PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > The sources: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-qa/svnbuildstat/?rev=0&sc=0 > > The wiki page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/svnbuildstat > > I believe Debian needs the same as Ubuntu has: Personal Package > Archives, where new maintainers could upload their source packages and
Agreed. > the service will automatically build and check the package. Everybody suddenly seems to think that yet another buildd is a great idea. Why is it? During the sponsoring process having a binary package is pretty useless. A sponsor will/should always take the source package, build it again and check both the source and the binary package. > And if the service says YES, it means the package will builds on > buildd hosts and is lintian/linda/piuparts clean, all bugs are > correctly closed, etc. etc.. I, as a user, need this feature, so that > when I fix something in a package, or create a new one, can simply > check it a little at my computer and then upload it to Debian PPA and > it will do the rest of the checks for me. And if it says YES, I'll ask > my sponsor to upload it. So far so good. Although you shouldn't rely on an automated tool but rather use it in addition. I wouldn't sponsor a package just because lintian doesn't complain. > At the moment I need to do all of this by hand and it's very time > consuming. So is package maintenance. > And then my sponsor needs to do the same, to be sure I > didn't make a mistake. Correct. Because the sponsor will be responsible for the package at that moment. The only solution I see here is that the package maintainer becomes a Debian developer or Debian contributor. > With Debian PPA, my sponsor can easily be sure the technical things > are ok and concenrate on QA. Aren't "technical things" == QA? > There is of course a question who will provide the resources for > DebPPA. And for the many architectures we have. > It contains links to all relevant discussions about this issue. But > when I found svnbuildstat, I want to work with Goneri. As Gonéri said, > we are trying to create such building blogs - a server that will > accept source packages (I only need source packages, Goneri also needs > input from VCS), and buildbots, that will do the compiling. Isn't that what buildds are about? Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
