At Mon, 12 May 2003 20:19:46 -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > I don't know what a good answer is. How much do we compensate for > > porters who don't take care of their toolchain? > > One of the great things about the Debian release policy IMO is that we > do a good job at really supporting the dozen or so architectures we > claim to support. We do not compromise and say that it's ok to release > something that only works on i386, when another architecture is > lagging behind. If you upload glibc-2.3.2 to sarge, all that will do > is cause a large number of bugs to be filed against various packages > because they will not build on mips, hppa, etc... how does that help > anyone or anything?
A lot of people use ix86. It's majority. It may be radical statement, but I think ix86 user's priority is higher than minor architecture breakage. Many users don't know except for ix86 :-) > For the most part, the porters are working very hard at keeping things > in sync (look at the stats on buildd.d.o ....). I can't think of a > single architecture where the porters are neglecting their port. That > said, some architectures do need more help than others because of lack > of upstream support, etc.... if anyone would like to help do the NPTL > work for hppa, please contact me. There have been various discussions > about this between Carlos and myself, but it's not something that will > happen in a few weeks' time. BTW, what is the status for hppa? If it's not so much, I would like to help you, AFAIC. Regards, -- gotom
