Neil Williams dixit:
>m68k is not a Debian architecture
It used to be one.
>it's requirements don't matter to the rest of Debian.
So speed doesn’t matter? I’m sure the maintainers of slower
architectures that *are* still in Debian would like to disagree.
Or do you want to throw them out while here?
>Keep a fork of your code in a local repo for m68k,
There’s no need to fork anything.
>don't contaminate the rest of Debian with artificial requirements which
^^^^^^^^^^^
>have nothing to do with Debian release architectures.
Do you really feel like that? If so, I have nothing more to add.
>Believe it or not, I've done as much if not more work on slow
>architectures than you have, that's why I do a lot of cross-building.
And I am still of the opinion that cross-building must not be
used except for bootstrapping.
>Sorry, that wasn't clear - you're planning on uploading old-style
>debhelper packaging for pax to experimental? If yes, then thank you. Is
I do not want any “thank you” from you, TYVM. Especially after the above.
>users don't seem to care about sh*. m68k is completely irrelevant and
>has been since it was dropped from Debian for not keeping up.
The point is, there is effort to make it not completely irrelevant.
But I’m probably talking against walls here.
>hard to work out what I do in Debian. I am a strong and active
>supporter of / contributor to debian-ports (and debian-blends and
Aaaaah, sure.
Reading on… I do not want to say anything to that.
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