On 2009-11-19, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:16:41PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2009-11-18, Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@deb.at> wrote: >> > I am a bit confused with respect to how buildd autosigning is required >> > for this. It makes it sound somehow like it would affect porter binary >> >> Basicalyl, the turnaround time is too long if we have to wait for manual >> buildd signings. >> >> For example, when we upload a new KDE, we usually upload a big chunk of >> source packages (3-5) where package 1 breaks last package. >> >> Currently, we can upload all source packages built for amd64 and i386 >> and that way keep kde installable in unstable for more than 95 % of the >> users. >> >> With 1 package signing per day (which is quite normal), we have 5 days >> where kde by itself is uninstallable on all archs, if the buildds have >> to build all packages by current means. > > Stupid question: If all these packages are interdependent and need to be > built the same day, why not upload them as a single package ?
It is only most of the time only for new Y releases in X.Y.Z, very rarely for new Z versions and never for the debian revision. And it is not small packages we are talking about. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
