Hey Adrian, I am Soumyajyotii Ssarkar.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Otto, > > On Tue, 2025-12-23 at 01:28 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > I've spent quite a lot of effort in trying to get MariaDB work on all > > Debian architectures and I am happy to state that the situation > > visible at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb is > > pretty good today. The only remaining problematic ones are hppa and > > Hurd. > > This is very much appreciated and not something that many maintainers care > about, so thanks a lot for all your hard work to make mariadb work > everywhere! > > > Are there any hppa porters with an interest in getting MariaDB working > > in the port? > > I think Helge and Dave are definitely interested in fixing MariaDB on hppa. > > Wonderful, I would also like to show interest to work alongside Helge and Dave on porting MariaDB to hppa. > I am happy to take your patches, do additional testing and do uploads. > > Unfortunately I can't do the actual port fixing myself as there is too > > much work and the domain is something I am not strong in. My attempt > > at fixes at > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/146 > > did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you > > don't need to start from zero. > > > > I also have good experiences of getting upstream to accept porting > > related patches (e.g. https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4480) so > > if you fix this in Debian and submit patches upstream, you most likely > > will get those fixes into MariaDB permanently for all users globally. > > The first step should be disabling Java support on hppa. Since OpenJDK > currently > does not support hppa due to the stack growing from upwards, any packages > that > make use of Java won't work on hppa. > > There is some work-in-progress port for OpenJDK on hppa that I worked on > some > years ago but I never finished the actual work. It might be a good idea to > complete that work in the future though. > Sure, sounds like a great place to start? I will try to get it setup and disable the java functionality first, perhaps to try and get it running. > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > > > Thank you, Soumyajyotii Ssarkar
