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[Andres Mejia <amejia004@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/4/12 Rogério Brito <rbrito@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi, Andres.
>
> On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:09 PM, Andres Mejia wrote:
>>
>> 2012/4/10 Rogério Brito <rbrito@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> I saw that the latest revision of xbmc (BTW, thanks for uploading it to
>>> Debian---one fewer package from dmo) disabled builds for architectures
>>> other
>>> than amd64 and i386. Would it be possible to have it enabled for other
>>> architectures? The changelog didn't mention the reason for the
>>> restriction.
>>>
>>> At least for PowerPC there are people that may (and are willing to) test
>>> the
>>> packages.
>>
>>
>> Yes, builds for the other archs will be reactivated soon. We're
>> currently working on getting the ARM builds working.
>
>
> Great, thanks for considering this. I figured out that since dmo offers the
> packages for arches other than amd64 and i386, then Debian can too. :)
>
>
>> For now, I at least want the amd64 and i386 packages to enter testing.
>
>
> OK, that's a sensible thing. What about uploading new test packaging to
> experimental, to not disrupt the transition to testing? That way, we could
> achieve the best of both worlds.

>From what I've seen, powerpc has already failed to build in Debian and
ARM is not building in Ubuntu, so I presume ARM builds will fail in
Debian too. I want to get the fixes for ARM in first before uploading
to experimental.

> BTW, thanks a lot for packaging xmbc. This package in particular makes
> Debian increase so much in value on its own.

You're welcome. :)

> One next step would be to sanitize the build system of handbrake to make
> another "high profile" package come from Debian proper...
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
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~ Andres