Universe Clarification Please

[Erik Bågfors]

What's happening with universe once warty is released? Will it be
updated? Will you accept bugfixes? new packages? new versions? what's
the plan?

Regards,
Erik

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:16:03 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:42:24AM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> 
> > Is it normal for universe to contain packages that will only
> > work on certain platforms? If so, is their anyway to identify
> > these since they are showing up in Synaptic?
> 
> Yes, it is normal.  The reason is that many packages don't build correctly
> on all Ubuntu platforms without fixes.  We devote our efforts to making
> these fixes for supported packages, as we have limited resources.
> 
> We welcome analysis and fixes from the community for universe packages,
> however.  In this case, the problem is a build failure due to an unsatisfied
> dependency:
> 
> http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~lamont/buildLogs/libo/libopenhbci-plugin-ddvcard/0.4.2-4/libopenhbci-plugin-ddvcard_0.4.2-4_20040922-2315-powerpc-failed
> 
> which should be straightforward for someone with a powerpc system to track
> down (I'm away from home and don't have access to one at the moment).  It
> might only need a retry.
> 
> --
>  - mdz
> 
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