On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:17:23PM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > Is one of the goals, stated or otherwise, of Debian to produce a > consistent source tree which is the same version across architectures?
Debian packages for all arches are built from the same source. For a package to propagate from unstable to testing, it has to be built on all (currently) 11 arches and have no serious bugs. For a package to be part of a Debian release, it has to be in testing at the time of the release. So I guess the answer is yes. > If so, maybe there aren't that many m68k related problems. Oh no, there are. Mainly gcc-3.3 bugs, which seem to miscompile some packages, which in turn make those unstallable, which in turn make the build of other packages fail before the build even starts. Check the failed build pages on crest and start fixing those gcc bugs. But then this is all for testing, and probably not many people are running testing on m68k. > I suppose most of the work is going on in the architecture neutral parts > of Debian? Depends on how you define architecture neutral. If package building on 11 arches is arch neutral or adding support for 11 arches to the debian-installer, then yes. I think only documentation is really arch neutral, but I have no idea how much work is done there. Christian
