Adrain, That is good to hear. I suspect that the older platforms will run longer than most hardware made today... even if it isn't necessarily mainstream any longer.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: On 06/25/2014 04:26 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Both Debian maintainers and upstream do not care about Linux/m68k at all. I'll talk to them. I read the bug report and I really don't like that kind of attitude. Sure, some of the things we compile for m68k will never run on (real) m68k hardware. However, making sure that all packages build cleanly on all architectures helps to keep the code tidy and portable. I happened to talk to Greg-Kroah Hartman at Linuxtag regarding the m68k port and he said, he's actually glad for what we're doing since m68k helps spotting portability problems and regressions and keeping the code compile on m68k means it will compile nearly everywhere else. And, he said there is no reason to drop m68k support in the kernel in the future, it will stay in :). Furthermore, if their argument was actually valid, we could apply the very same logic to the Debian BSD and Hurd ports. These do also have a very small user base, yet the rest of Debian honors their work and invests extra efforts to keep these architectures supported. PS: Thorsten, thanks for filing these bug reports and keeping an eye over the results of the buildds. I really appreciate your work! Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
