On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:50:37PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:36:47PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > 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 - > > That is not always the case. If the machine in question doesn't have > the packages necessary to satisfy your build-deps, you're SOL. Not only > that, but very, very few maintainers of non-free software actually do > that.
Well, you ask the debian-admin team, and they kindly install the packages you need, with a small delay. Friendly, Sven Luther
