On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 12:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt, le Fri 20 Apr 2012 12:10:33 +0200, a écrit : > > I do not find it acceptable for a port in the main archive to rely on > > external packages, esp. should it eventually be released with wheezy. > > It is not acceptable either that patches take so long to get uploaded > in the main archive. Not using debian-ports would make a new port > completely impossible. kfreebsd also did that. That's the only way to go > forward, otherwise there is always something broken that prevents from > actually making progress.
If the Debian maintainers were more responsive to bug reports wrt GNU/Hurd the debian-ports archive would almost empty by now... The problems are not only due to the porters. Currently there are 39 bugs with patches, 5 forwarded and 6 pending upload, all with severity important in the BTS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
