Sunday, 5 October 2014

Re: Considering change of Architecture: all builders for next release cycle

On 3 October 2014 14:42, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've always built "Architecture: all" packages as part of our i386
> builds. This is beginning to look a bit outdated. A few packages have
> had difficulty building their architecture-independent components on
> amd64 (usually due to address space limits, I think). Debian is working
> on Architecture: all autobuilding - it's traditionally been done by the
> developer, but source-only uploads require autobuilding - and my
> understanding is that this is likely to be done on amd64 buildds.
>
> Building these on amd64 would make no difference to our capacity - all
> our amd64 and i386 builders are shared nowadays anyway - but it's more
> forward-looking and might help a few more packages build cleanly.
>
> Launchpad only lets us set this when initialising a new series, so we're
> coming close to a decision point. What would people think about
> switching this to amd64 when we initialise the 15.04 series?
>

+1, as I've asked for that to happen before =)))))

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Regards,

Dimitri.

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