On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:15:44PM -0700, Alex Ross wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:34:35AM -0700, Alex Ross wrote: > >>The following is based on premises that portability is good and that > >>POSIX is a standard. A proposal. > > > >I didn't see a concrete proposal in your email, only information about > >where to find gnusolaris build logs. Can you elaborate? > > > > Minimally, package maintainers and developers could take a look on our logs > and see if there's anything wrong. If there is, in many cases the fix is > obvious.
Because Debian and Ubuntu developers may not have access to a similar build environment, it will be difficult for them to help you in this way. Even if the first error is fixed, they will need to wait for you to build the package again to see if it builds. I expect that most maintainers won't be interested in working this way. It makes more sense for the Nexenta community to fix these problems and make the patches available to other distributions and upstream. If your intention is to invite the Debian and Ubuntu developer communities to participate in this way, perhaps a good step would be to offer them access to a porting machine where they can help you with this work if they are interested? > Ideally though, there'd be an augmented policy of package acceptance, > reflecting the fact that the packages with "Architecture: any" should build > and run on one of the Debian POSIX-compliant systems. NexentaOS is > certainly one such system. To help implement this new policy we could "plug" > our AutoBuilder [1] into the existing build environment. If we find that it is feasible to get the current packages in Debian to meet this standard, then we can consider extending policy to recommend or mandate it at some point in the future, but to do this before attempting the experiment would be premature. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
