Re: kaffe in testing asap

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:46:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > I'd like to have kafe in testing. At the moment, kaffe only build on
> > powerpc and i386. What do I have to do to let it go in testing?
> > 
> > o do I have to change arch: any to arch: i386, powerpc
> 
> Err... first of all I'd suggest to fix the build mess:
> 
> kaffe       unstable  1:1.0.7-3     alpha arm m68k sparc
> kaffe       unstable  1:1.1.1-1     s390
> kaffe       unstable  1:1.1.1-5.2   hppa ia64
> kaffe       unstable  2:1.1.4-1     i386 powerpc source
> 
> There seem to be four different versions of various architectures in
> unstable.  Of course, this cannot go into testing.
> 
> If this package is powerpc+i386 only, you'll have to denote this in
> the debian/control file, of course.

Actually he could just have the ftpmasters remove the outdated << 1.1.4
versions, and then testing could take it.

The buildds would later try to build the new versions, but that's probably
not harmful and wouldn't cause serious FTBFS bugs, only normal.

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