Fri, 12 Jan 2007
experimental/non-free ARM buildd has been banned
Some of you know, the experimental/non-free packages for ARM have been stopped updates since the end of last year.
Because ftpmasters decided to restrict uploaders of ARM binary except only a few members, (unfortunately) I was banned also at same time.
So it means that even if you'd like to update your non-free package for Etch, you can't do it by yourself. Sadly I can't help you also. You have to find and ask "a few members" by yourself to build your package and sign it by them.
Although we (aba, tbm, and me) are asking ftpmasters to allow me as ARM authorized uploader, don't expect so much. (shrug)
Why...?
As far as I can see from the discussion at debian-devel raised by Aurelien (restricted sourceless ARM uploads), some people uploaded packages built by an emulator instead of real machine. Ftpmasters didn't love such doing.
Furthermore I'm at out of ftpmaster's eye, that's all.
Today I changed buildd.conf.farm.
-@take_from_dists = qw(sarge-volatile etch-secure unstable experimental sarge-bpo);
+@take_from_dists = qw(sarge-volatile etch-secure sarge-bpo);
It is just wasting electric power and disk space to make these distros.
Message: Ready to post a comment.

![[RSS]](/d/rss10.png)