[pkg-fso-maint] qemubuilder + distcc

[Luca Capello]

Hi Timo!

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:22 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> [Cc to pkg-fso-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org since they might be
> interested]

They are, thank you.

> I read your qemubuilder+distcc thoughts from
>
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2008-Sep-1.html.en
>
> with interest since I need to build package for the openmoko
> freerunner. I installed distcc and emdebian-tools packages

Kudos for the effort, but I'm not sure ATM these packages are useful:
they are not like "native" packages, but instead cross-compiled ones.

The first problem I see is that I'm quite sure that they'll be never
accepted into Debian.  The second one is that they don't use the buildd
infrastructure [1], which means that they can generate/hide different
errors.

Please someone corrects me if I'm wrong.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] to be clear, neither QEMU uses the buildd infrastructure, but it's
    very close to since it's a native compilation
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