[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Test rebuilding gnutls rdepends?

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 04/11/07 at 10:37 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello Lucas,
> 
> I am ready to be shot down, but I am going to ask nicely nevertheless.
> ;-)
> 
> -------------
> <nutmeg> Has Debian yet got a rebuild-farm? I'd like to (try to)
>   rebuild gnutls rdepends against 2.1.5 but would rather not do it at
>   home.
> <aba> nutmeg: ask lucas
> -------------
> 
> gnutls recently broke its API, some interfaces were removed, some were
> deprecated and some were changed. Usually this means that the -dev
> package needs to change its name and anything build-depending on it
> will have a sourceful change. However I *suspect* that none of the
> changed interfaces are actuall/widely used in Debian, and I should be
> able to keep the libgnutls-dev name.
> 
> To make sure, I would like to try to rebuild all rdepends against old
> and libgnutls-dev, checking for _new_ build-failures and warnings.
> Have you got the infrastructure to do this without much effort on your
> side and would you be willing to do it? (I would like to end up with
> bunch of buillogs.)

Hi Andreas,

Unfortunately, I'll be very busy next week, then in VAC for two weeks,
so this would basically have to wait until the beginning of december. If
it can wait that long, I can do it. If it can't, you'd better find
another solution.
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