Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

This thread went OT talking about ports, but oh well…

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 04:03:25AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:46:21PM +0100, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> > The build and package delivery infrastructure should offer the same features
> > for both first and second class archs, including installer image building for
> > all "tiers" (stable, testing, unstable).
> 
> It seems to me that the important bit is the testing suite.  As a (now
> lapsed) x32 porter, I tried to implement that on my own (goal being an
> unofficial, weakly security supported[1] Jessie for x32).  And tracking
> testing on my own proved to be too hard.

Pretty much everything of what Adrian is mentioning (above is part of
it), would be fixed if the ports archive were to move to using a full
dak instance.

I know that James was working on adding the few missing features that
would be ports-specific, but I haven't heard an update on that work
since a while.

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