On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:41:22AM -0400, Kevin Puetz wrote:
>
> --citations from two messages in this thread
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Outdated packages are bad packages with compiler or packing errors.
> > The xfree package is one of it (it fails for mach64 and two header
> > files that are at the wrong place).
>
> Hmm... OK, but I've actually had pretty good luck compiling them (at least I
> was until dselect took me up to gcc 2.95.1 and binutils broke.
>
> > At monday i started a re-compile of old and bad packages (more then
> > 300 were in the backlog; currently 201 'source' packages).
>
> Ah, OK. I did just catch it when there was an unusual backlog.
>
> > Roman Hodek is the main author for wanna-build.
> > Every debian maintainer can lock a package (or more) on tervola and
> > build it at home.
>
> So I just need to register with debian and then I can build
>
> > The need-to-build list was the list with bad packages. I should set
> > them all to failed, but i like it more (for the moment) to restart it
> > from time to time.
>
> Odd that so many of them have built for me then... some fixes must recently
> have gone in.
>
> > You can setup a client-build-daemon (tervola is master), but we
> > shouldn't do this at this stage. We can do this after the release,
> > this machine can build then the stable binaries.
>
> Hmm... I whould hope that after release the 'stable' branch wouldn't get
> changed often enough for it to matter anymore.
>
> > The best way is -- as i requested it serveral times -- ask for bad
> > packages and work on them.
>
> So I just need to register with debian and start hacking on packages that
> don't work (well, OK _clean_ fixes to packages that don't work). I'll do that
> (goes off to read up on registration rules...)
In the mean time, you can always work on packages, and send the corresponding
patch to someone else who is already a debian developper, to the BTS (if the
i386 maintainer cares about it), or to this list. becoming developper can be a
lengthy process.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
