On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > now I have access to a quite powerful IA64 machine and I am willing to > help porting Debian stuff. Can you recommend some tasks/packages that > need some help? I have started to recompile my own packages and found > some major bugs, e.g. afbackup was completely broken on ia64 up to now! > And no bug was filed at the BTS.
I think what ia64 needs more than anything is just more users trying stuff. I switched to it as my main desktop recently and started finding things to work on almost straight away ... A lot of stuff on ia64 is only compile-tested. That isn't something anyone's happy about, but with so many packages in Debian, it'd be a mammoth task to test them all. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
