I've been running a cross-buildd for a while now (if somewhat sporadically), which builds a subset of packages using standard debian (emdebian.org) toolchains in standard sbuild chroots, to determine which packages are currently cross-buildable using multiarch mechanisms.
The results summaries currently look like this: http://people.linaro.org/~wookey/buildd/unstable/sbuild-ma/status.html It would be useful if this info was more widely exposed, so that package maintainers could know the status of their packages in this regard. The PTS and UDD have been suggested as sensible places for this info. There are 3 statuses distinguished: 'Builds OK', 'fails to build', 'cross-build-deps cannot be satisfied' (so no build attempted), and 'not tried'. I'd like to know what would be needed to get this info noted on the PTS (or anywhere else people think would be useful), and whether anyone else thinks this would be something useful to do. The current results are generated by a (fairly dim) perl script which parses build-logs. It would be easy to make it spit out summaries in a different form: e.g. a testfile list of: package, version, arch, status And apprently something like this (along with a reader) is what is needed to put the info in UDD (from whence it could be consumed by other software). Sugestions on how to proceed are welcome. (keep me cc:ed, I'm not subscribed) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ ----- End forwarded message ----- Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121101004637.gc24...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
