On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:03:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:19:23PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I'm trying to work out why package *section* matters at all. Package name > > is a bit odd, too, but including the section in there is just totally > > whack. > > Consider that libraries have their own section. Certain package sections > are (on the whole) more central to the dependency graph than others, so it's > to our advantage to order those first to reduce the need for give-backs or > dep-waits.
libs, devel and some others makes sense, but the others all have a defined order too according to recent discussion on debian-release. Of course this is never apparently when things are running smoothly with all the buildds. Is there anything that can be done to help with arm/mipsel? I think I read that new machines/owners aren't welcome currently anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
