Re: debian unusable on niagara

[Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>]

Hi,

Le Monday 04 May 2009 11:12:38 Josip Rodin, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:40:26AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the main issue is that nobody's actively working
> > on the debian sparc port in the first place.  And without active
> > maintainers, that port is actually a disservice to users and the sparc
> > linux community.
>
> Even if nobody is currently volunteering to explicitly state that they are
> working on the port as a whole (which has always been a fairly vague
> concept anyway), the software is generally working fine (yes, even if it
> has bugs), the buildds are happily churning (and are actually actively
> maintained), new users do actually regularly come through, so I fail to see
> how it's a disservice to everyone.

A distribution developer should provide users with working kernels. Getting 
software x.y.z to work on sparc is something different. So rather than 
disservicing anyone it is just annoying not being able to boot a kernel or 
having it partially working for something as stupid as enabling/disabling the 
right kernel options.

>
> What is that statement supposed to mean, anyway? Would you prefer if
> the port didn't exist at all?

No as long as there are users for it, please maintain it, but focus your 
attention on kernels rather than geting the whole Debian package set to work.

My 2 cents.
-- 
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@openwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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