Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

[Florian Lohoff <f@zz.de>]

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:54:51PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:10:06PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:58:52PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:31:58PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > > 
> > > > just a heads up that Mips and Mipsel are 2 architectures in danger
> > > > of beeing dropped by Debian if no one steps up as a porter beeing
> > > > reachable for addressing architecture specific bugs. 
> > > 
> > > What components and packages are we talking about?  Are we talking about
> > > a fulltime job for a small army of geeks or?
> > 
> > Its about dealing with architecture specific problems. Looking after
> > ICEs, userspace asm stuff for debian packages where they break etc.
> > 
> > A typical Debian Developer wont know about the mips specifics and 
> > needs someone to adress stuff to if the build breaks for architecture
> > specific problems.
> > 
> > Debian has formalizes the release criterias for their architectures
> > concerning build architecture, availabibility of hardware and 
> > manpower to fix those problems. This is why there needs to be some
> > names on the list.
> > 
> > All the Debian architectures are depending on one another. So if a
> > gcc build fails for parisc the new gcc cant propagate to stable/testing.
> > So the release managers are keen on quickly fixing those bugs to not
> > hold up all architectures progressing.
> 
> Sounds like this is really a job for a number of specialists in various
> fields.
> 
> You also mentioned the availability of hardware.  How's the situation
> there wrt. to MIPS?

Its not about current availability but the possibility to buy new
hardware for whatever reason:

http://lwn.net/Articles/152600/

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f@zz.de

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