On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0000, Niels de Vos wrote:
it looks like not all Fedora 13 packages can be build on ARM yet.
For
some packages there have been tickets opened at the Trac instance:
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https://fedorahosted.org/arm/report/1
I'd like to help out with building these packages, but am not a
'proven packager' [1], so I can not fix the issues completely and rely
I'd like some advise on the best/efficient way forward. Any
other
thoughts are also more than welcome!
Submitting patches to Bugzilla is the recommended way for this.
Possibly I could request to become a proven packager [2], but I do
not
know if fixing building ARM-packages is enough to get FESCo approve my
request.
Even if you are a proven packager you should still ask the maintainer
for approval of patches to avoid unwanted side-effects, but you can do
the work to update the package. I do not know how much you already have
contributed to Fedora to prove that you are a experienced packager. If
you think it is not enough, you submit more patches using bugzilla for
now and ask for provenpackager membership once you got more feedback
from packagers or more patches accepted. In general helping to fix
secondary arch build issues is a proper reason to become a proven
packager.
Btw. if there are packagers that agree to a patch you submitted but lack
the time to update the package, you can ping me and I will help.
Maybe this helps to speed up the patch approval. You might want to
mention this possibility on the bug reports to get the packagers faster
to agree. There are probably also other proven packagers here on the ARM
list that will help with this.
Regards
Till