Svante Signell, le Wed 27 Mar 2013 10:41:50 +0100, a écrit : > I was referring to a debian maintainer adding a hurd-specific patch into > sid->testing,
I understood that. > that won't happen. Yes, so what? > These bug reports+patches are just rotting in the BTS until Wheezy is > released. Am I missing something here? No. But what is the problem of dropping those packages, just like we have been dropping out-of-date packages in the past? > > 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? A personal package yes, or providing the patch so it can be uploaded to -ports. > Regarding emacs23 it still does not build, and gdb builds with an > already submitted patch Yes, still to be fixed, but I felt we should keep them. > Where is that package going to be hosted, until after Wheezy is > released, in -ports? For now in the main archive > These excepted packages, don't they also clutter the archive? They do. But that's just a few packages, to be compared with the hundred that I'm proposing to drop. > > > 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. That's the plan yes. > With eglibc and hurd at -ports, doesn't that cause a big problem wrt > dependencies of other packages being in main? Nope. Packages in main don't depend on the -ports eglibc & hurd. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
