Re: concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-02-12 13:52, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-02-11 20:46 GMT+01:00 Peter Palfrader : >> It seems the buildd team is severely understaffed and needs help. > > If this rumor turns to be a reality, are there some prerequisites > potential volunteers could have a look to in the event the

Re: concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-02-12 22:18, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2015-02-12 13:02, Holger Levsen wrote: >>> Possible avenues include updating the forks and working on making the >>> forks >>> no longer necessary. >> are these forks maintained in VCSs? > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/buildd-tools/sbuild.git/log/?h

Re: concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2015-02-12 13:02, Holger Levsen wrote: Possible avenues include updating the forks and working on making the forks no longer necessary. are these forks maintained in VCSs? http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/buildd-tools/sbuild.git/log/?h=buildd-0.64 Historically forks have been needed because

Re: concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-12 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi, 2015-02-11 20:46 GMT+01:00 Peter Palfrader : > It seems the buildd team is severely understaffed and needs help. If this rumor turns to be a reality, are there some prerequisites potential volunteers could have a look to in the event they want to apply for the role? Cheers, Luca -- To UNS

Re: concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > The Debian buildd network uses a fork of the buildd and sbuild packages > instead of the packages we ship in the archive. are the bugs about these issues? > These packages, maintained by the builddadm team are shipped via > buildd.debia

concerns about the state of buildds for jessie

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, DSA is concerned about the current state of our buildd's readyness for jessie. The Debian buildd network uses a fork of the buildd and sbuild packages instead of the packages we ship in the archive. The reasons why we are still doing that are not entirely clear, but that's the status quo. T