[Debian-ports-devel] debian-ports archive moving

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2016-05-30 22:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 05/30/2016 10:17 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I'm not sure.  My time is limited and I don't think I have time to research haskell binNMUs on
> > other architectures
> 
> That's why my suggestion was to use the script that Michael has written. If we can make the
> binNMUs a tad bit less manual, we had one problem less to care about. And since I naturally
> all want binNMUs to be triggered when they are necessary, I'm all for automating this at
> least for the Haskell packages where frequent binNMUs are necessary.
> 
> > On hppa, I tend to trigger rebuilds without doing any research as to why
> > any given haskell package is missing.
> 
> This is bad, really. Please don't do that.
> 
> > Some people don't like the lack of info in the rebuild comment.
> 
> And for a very good reason. The comments are necessary to understand what exactly
> happened. I mean, how exactly do you decide whether you trigger a binNMU if
> you actually haven't researched why the binNMU is necessary?
> 
> I mean, yes, for Haskell, the answer is the usually ABI change after some
> dependency was changed in a recent upload. However, exactly for these cases,
> my suggestion would be to use the script that Michael has written. So, instead
> of having to spend too little time on the Haskell binNMU to write a proper
> binNMU changelog, you will actually have to spend no time on it  :).
> 
> > I also worry that the timing of binNMUs will vary from one arch to another.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. The binNMUs should be independent for each architecture,
> of course. The script should be run in a way that it checks for the necessary
> binNMUs individually and also triggers them individually. I was not meaning
> to trigger the exact same binNMUs on all architectures, independent of what
> the script actually determined for a particular architecture. This would
> defeat the purpose of the script anyway as then you could just trigger binNMUs
> the way you have been doing it.
> 
> > I'm sure the script will be very helpful.  Could it run as a cron job and email results?  That
> > would save considerable time.
> 
> We should probably talk about this with Aurelien. Maybe he would allow us
> to install a cron job or something similar on wuiet.
> 
> @Aurelien: What do you think?

You can install a cron job on wuiet if you want. As long as it doesn't
take too many resources, no one will complain.

Aurelien

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