Le Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:14:41PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > > The mipsel port is used by the Lemote Notebooks/mini Desktops for example, > which come pre-installed with Debian. Not sure if they have popcon enabled > at all. And I guess mipsel is more a target for Embedian. No idea about usage > statistics there, though.
More comprehensively, Lemote sells computers with 共创Linux (Co-Create Linux ?), Red Flag (红旗) Linux, Loonux or Debian. Therefore, while reality is probably not all black or all white, we need to consider, in addition to the hypothesis that Debian is installed without Popcon, the hypothesis that people do not run Debian on their Lemote computer (note the Firefox icon on the laptop's screen at http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/9.html ). Mips popcon score is 9, mipsel is 52, armel is 1223, amd64 is 44323 and i386 is 63725. Of them, armel and amd64 are clearly growing, the others not. This has a meaning that can not be discarded. By having mips(el) as release architectures we definitely have a greater potential than others, but if there is no proactive team working for making Debian adopted outside embedded hardwares, it is not unlikely that the niche will be taken by another distribution or a derivative. See how Ubuntu is preparing its entrance on the ARM market, for instance. Just telling the maintainers to fix random packages themselves on a porterbox is not enough, and that is why I do not feel like spending time supporting packages on architectures unless there is evidence that somebody will actually use these particular packages. Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110902000144.gb21...@merveille.plessy.net