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

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

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?

  Ralf