On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:21:22PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:33:08PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Sourceforge has a compile farm[1], and Debian has numerous machines DD's > > can login too[2]. Not everybody has 11 different arches in their > > basement... Without access to Debian-unstable boxes of all > > Debian's autobuilders do not build non-free. People that happen to be > Debian developers and have those machines do. I'd venture to say very > few non-free packages get ported by people that don't actually run them > on that target platform. So I don't think removing non-free would have > a significant impact here.
Not with respect to the porting, I agree. Concerning the merely building of the binary .deb files... the maintainer only needs how to login on a remote debian system and how to invoke dpkg-buildpackage - something that is known to every maintainer. And if a maintainer fails to build .deb's for arches he doesn't run, his package will not propagate to testing if previously his package WAS once built for that arch. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar +31-30-253 4499 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
