Hi, I have noticed that package updates seem to take a very long time to get installed into the powerpc tree (but not always..), for example slocate which was broken in that it would not install when the most recent findutils was installed has been fixed on i386 for ages, and still is not in the powerpc tree. I even downloaded the package source and built it myself to see if there was some technical reason for the delay (like not compiling) but it compiled and then installed perfectly...
same thing for OpenSSH (it compiled fine) the pre24 version is still in the powerpc tree. (which has release critical bugs...) lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-powerpc/utils> ll slocate_* -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 22616 Jan 29 19:58 slocate_2.1-2.deb lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-powerpc/utils> lftp non-us.debian.org:/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-powerpc> ll ssh_* -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 242868 Jan 15 19:52 ssh_1.2.1pre24-1.deb lftp non-us.debian.org:/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-powerpc> this is not a flame or anything, i am just curious as to what is causing these (somewhat annoying) delays. is there not enough machines to do powerpc builds on or something? -- Ethan Benson
