On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 09:43 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Wed 27 Mar 2013 09:17:50 +0100, a écrit : > > On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 01:51 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Below is a list of packages which are out of date, which I consider > > > asking ftp-master to remove. Packages with a couple of spaces before > > > are removals needed to turn the out of date packages leaves. > > > > > > Anybody see any red flag among these before I submit the removal > > > request? > > .. > > Until Wheezy is released these packages will not be patched to > > build on GNU/Hurd. > > So? > > We have always done so to avoid archive cluttering. This is not new.
I was referring to a debian maintainer adding a hurd-specific patch into sid->testing, that won't happen. These bug reports+patches are just rotting in the BTS until Wheezy is released. Am I missing something here? > If somebody really wants a package, he can grab the source and patch. > That's *precisely* I asked for red flags on some particular package > that we'd *want* to keep because they are so useful: I've for instance > excluded emacs23, gdb, etc. Do you mean building a package for personal reasons then, not entering either the main archive or -ports? Regarding emacs23 it still does not build, and gdb builds with an already submitted patch (including a change of the gcc restricted code word MACH). Where is that package going to be hosted, until after Wheezy is released, in -ports? These excepted packages, don't they also clutter the archive? > > Or is your plan to host these packages at debian-ports? > > I don't plan to spend the time to do such thing myself: most of them are > just not buildable in the current state. The few of them which just need > a patch could be built. I just do *not* have any time to upload them, > since there are far more important priorities, like getting buildds > administrated by DSA, fixing bugs in libc, possibly fixing the https > issue in firefox, etc. etc. That's way more important that getting e.g. > rrdtool built... What is your plan wrt the unofficial Wheezy release of Hurd? The latest patches to eglibc are now at -ports, and would probably stay there, never entering the main archive. The next eglibc will be based on 2.18+. And the latest Hurd is there too. With eglibc and hurd at -ports, doesn't that cause a big problem wrt dependencies of other packages being in main? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
