On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:42:59PM +0200, Martin Guy wrote: > This trick of "quietly deciding Debian arch names in a meeting" seems > to be becoming common practice(*) and is not to be recommended, since > it creates an inner circle of special people and excludes anyone not > physically present at the meeting from participating.
What a load of crap. Quietly? The name was discussed, discussed, discussed and discussed online for a half a year. It was becoming painfully tight on schedule, so the name *HAD* to be decided at some point, and Extremadura was conviniently close enough. You and everyone else had the chance to particicipate to the discussion at mailing lists and wiki. We failedd to make a decision online in a timely manner, so we had to take the decision to face-to-face meeting basing on the discussions and feedpaback earlier. I also asked for feedback for the event's agenda on the mailing lists, yet nobody-NOBODY objected deciding eabi port there. > The actual letters of the name wouldn't matter, but in this case the > "decision" has concrete technical reasons for being one of the worst. > Users of the current old ABI "armeb" repository are to have the rug > pulled from under them on some random date, and forced to rebuild all > their systems totally to use a new incompatible arch of the same name When asked, armeb porters did not feel it was an issue. Armeb is not in official debian, much less a release architecture. Hurd port did a incomptable ABI change while they where in Debian. If people consider it a major problem, we can call the new arch armbe, using the same mechanism to differentiate the linux-gnu from linux-gnueabi. One possibility is to setup a big enough conflict in a installed-everywhere package that stops users from upgrading accidentally to eabi libc6. However, the armeb *porters* themself are in the key position - after all it's they who get the work to do. Now, I'll answer your technical issues later in a less flamy manners when I've cooled a bit down ;) http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2006/01/msg00000.html http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEmbeddedWorkSessionExtremadura2006 http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2006/03/msg00058.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2006/04/msg00007.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
