| Petter Reinholdtsen 2004-08-08, 5:51 pm |
| [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Well, one can do something about the build ordering. Packages which
> many packages build-depending on them should be given priority. And
> packages could be sorted in build-depend order, to avoid trying to
> build package foo before it's build-dependency libbar only to see it
> fail.
[Wouter Verhelst]
> That is already done, for as much as is possible with the current state
> of things. Don't expect stuff to magically be fixed when there's little
> time...
Ah, very good. It must be a new feature since the last time I knew
how this worked. 
Is it also looking at the time since the upload, or can low-priority
packages "starve"? Looking at
<URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info...istdiff.html.gz> I
suspect so, as www-sql was uploaded 40 days ago and are still not
built on alpha.
Is the buildd ordering algorithm documented anywhere? It would be
interesting to read how the packages are sorted for building.
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