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["George J. Sherwood" <george AT beernabeer.com>]

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> From: sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:31 PM
> To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [SM-Discuss] prometheus update -- fire by numbers
> 
> After over 1200 spells compiled, I'm checking back in to talk 
> about the numbers.
> 
> This is just from on my dual opteron box...
> 
> Approximately 1/3rds of the spells are broken, but not all of 
> them are their own fault.  Only about 1/8 are broke broken.  
> The rest are skipped due to not being able to satisfy their 
> (most likely) correctly-listed dependencies.  Keep in mind 
> that many of these spells are bitrotting -- they are never 
> used due to only one person wanting them.  According to the 
> ledger, we find that only a few hundred are actually 
> consistently used by people.  Also keep in mind that the vast 
> majority of these errors are missing dependencies or bad 
> md5s.  Stuff that's actually compile broken are few and far between.
> 
> I still have about three to four times this many to compile.  
> I figure it will take a week or two if things go ok and the 
> box is ok running 24/7.  If I let my box go gangbusters 
> forever, I figure we can have releases every month or two.  
> With the volunteers, we might be able to increase the testing 
> rate so that we can release sooner, but of course, testing 
> isn't so much the limit as how fast we can put fixes in and 
> fix difficult bugs.

I would also add that some of stable is so old that it doesn't cast.  So far
I have been failures in my section of bitlbee and pwlib/openh323.  Openh323
is not developed any more and has been replaced in ekiga with opal.
Openldap has been updated in stable and pwlib will not cast against it.
Pwlib, ekiga, and opal all need to be pulled from test for this to work.

I have never seen that error with bitlbee, but the version cast was 0.92,
and test is at 1.0.2.  I am not surprised that it doesn't cast.

George Sherwood