"No change" rebuilds and archive skew
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Nov 4 20:14:33 GMT 2010
Yesterday I had to re-upload gdk-pixbuf and atk1.0 to pick up the new gobject-
introspection on powerpc. This enabled a reasonable number of powerpc FTBFS
(~half a dozen) to be fixed.
It looks like when they were initially uploaded, gobject-introspection was
built on amd64, armel, and i386, but not powerpc and as a result, these
packages ended up incorrectly built against the older gobject-introspection on
just powerpc. Misbuilds like this can be difficult to detect.
Please: If you aren't going to wait until the library you are rebuilding
against is built on all architctures, add a minimum version to the build-
depends so that it won't build against the wrong one on slower architectures.
Scott K
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