Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> >> And, the question remains: how do I effectively shall maintain such a >> package without burding a heavy load to my sponsor and possibly to other >> people (porters)? I am willing to do my job here, but I see myself quite >> slowed down by the combination of some very ineffective procedures ... > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#non-free-buildd > > Hope this helps
The problem here is, that wcslib-contrib cannot be built automatically by buildd since the buildd (for contrib packages) does not install non-free packages (which is pgplot5 in my case). My question here is whether the non-free buildd would do so (which is what I interpret from [1]) -- if yes, I'd like to know why a similar procedure cannot be switched on for contrib packages build-require non-free. The hell goes on here even further: Since I am non a DD yet, I have to ask for access to porter boxes every time I want to rebuild the packages, so that I even can't automatize the build process on ports myself, which involves always have a dozen people to decide whether I should gain access. Even if I would get access and could build the packages, I could not upload them myself. Although I got DM rights (thanks to Steffen), I am not allowed to do binary-only uploads for whatever reason. And as I understood Jakub Wilk [2], he can (or shall) not use packages I that I built before to just upload them. So, all I can do here is to put all the load to Steffen or another DD willing to do the job, and to repeat this every time the package changes. This sound for me like an abuse of the sponsoring process, which originally was designed to help newbies getting knowledge about the Debian procedures. And this all since contrib packages with non-free dependencies cannot be built automatically "at the moment" [3] since two years. I am just looking for a solution for this problem... Best regards Ole [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/08/msg00338.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/08/msg00343.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/690282#20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4um43wc....@news.ole.ath.cx
