From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:07:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pax.zz.de ([88.198.69.77]:54605 "EHLO pax.zz.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S6832659Ab3ISPHX3ycTx (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:07:23 +0200 Received: by pax.zz.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC633415F; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:07:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:07:22 +0200 From: Florian Lohoff To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update) Message-ID: <20130919150722.GC28967@pax.zz.de> References: <20130919103158.GB7476@pax.zz.de> <20130919135852.GB22468@linux-mips.org> <20130919141006.GB9062@pax.zz.de> <20130919145451.GE22468@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130919145451.GE22468@linux-mips.org> Organization: rfc822 - pure communication User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 37887 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: f@zz.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > > >=20 > > > > 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.=20 > > >=20 > > > What components and packages are we talking about? Are we talking ab= out > > > a fulltime job for a small army of geeks or? > >=20 > > Its about dealing with architecture specific problems. Looking after > > ICEs, userspace asm stuff for debian packages where they break etc. > >=20 > > A typical Debian Developer wont know about the mips specifics and=20 > > needs someone to adress stuff to if the build breaks for architecture > > specific problems. > >=20 > > Debian has formalizes the release criterias for their architectures > > concerning build architecture, availabibility of hardware and=20 > > manpower to fix those problems. This is why there needs to be some > > names on the list. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Sounds like this is really a job for a number of specialists in various > fields. >=20 > 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 --=20 Florian Lohoff f@zz.de --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBUjsTKpDdQSDLCfIvAQh7hQ/5AUrWm7vb8XERY/rL0E5fuovVKgyzyIBt 6GXdczZq0xgfeU23F/3Z37pfLCWCeabclZJJiYn59Jig14zfpTUvvU+igugEgDyI yKOHUWmbZWE9Jc+T/u5HCdKBWjtRbPBTx14gJY8rxJMtXsBBac2vwTYHXt4PNEdh P+xg7PJYfBH5yXnFQOrPFxjZDKkThVS/9BD0YhCCO7vUrN3eMg11b8hGDzxgRTyc mhCUN/p+4CzDZU5n9OlZRBUI32G044PJHfCedbCTu3kD1J+c3iXx3uM1CUjrZ+O2 9q96fiN1WLo8JzhNrLOUL7zzZxw9orzwIM+tVdvzAdjrjlCYJ8z9i0OAVbxcP1sw 9KOCADzeXb15rXLO9++7sgZFDi+zuVgXt0ZqVaGvVPKHsKhj/Nf2H1+ronQKeXHU AKvzMpoEYoJEpcZDszsUyR1vBJH7UmWoQiyVyEGixLvC4P+JYXnq6/yOrLGzzzTL abYQFUVhiwGow1Fi3KP7ZLGRwNVKTwHYkyJpAN9sCGCQAGyvBBgJIvxFG2AQiyJE FGMMGbbUoiWIZ6+lEViOEAKQhXA0Rm/3XzCXaEWav+DwvkyGDotCQA+x5Re+CNOe FmATw/C3kCDyNTYiWJkXyjaGjtMViuR0vYQtxLQDgI17gt2gWqjlv+FP3SpzIixP BsdtEsrD/3w= =V+Ky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/--