[buildd-tools-devel] architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:28:07PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:13:43AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 21:55:00 Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > So, there's missing support in sbuild (#501230), which arguably is
> > > a pretty recent bug report, but AFAIR I sent a mail to Ryan long time
> > > ago when drafting the wildcard support and never heard back, but then
> > > I never insisted again, so that's on me.
> > >
> > > Then the buildd network will need to be upgraded to use an sbuild
> > > supporting that. I'm not sure if wanna-build might also need changes.
> > > Lintian will need to be fixed as well once the buildd network supports
> > > this. And then minor stuff like the vim debcontrol syntax highlighter
> > > and similar.
> 
> > Would it be reasonable/acceptable to establish this issue as a squeeze release 
> > goal?
> 
> a release goal is IMHO something that needs fixes in a sweep of
> packages in archive before release. This change OTOH just needs fixes
> to sbuild and then some infrastructure work (deploying new sbuild/buildd
> everywhere).
> 
> As the second part is already being worked on, all you need is to provide
> patches to the sbuild/buildd maintainers :)

If it's just a matter of applying the patch for #501230, that's easy
enough.  I should have applied it a while back, but it just slipped under
the radar.


Regards,
Roger

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