On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-09-16 06:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I work with a free/open source project. We have a failure report from >> a Debian package maintainer on an s390. >> > > Hi Jeffrey, > > Thanks for your interest. :) > > I am directing you over to debian-mentors, since your enquiry is > probably better fitted there (debian-testing is intended for upgrade > reports etc.) > >> I have a lot of systems available to me for testing (including GCC's >> test farm), but none of them provide an s390 environment. I tried to >> add QEMU's qemu-system-s390x, but ran into Debian Bug 799120 >> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799120). >> >> I'm guessing Debian has the test platform because a maintainer tested >> under it (he told me it was not QEMU based). But searching results in >> spurious noise (https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+test+farm), and >> nothing specific to Debian. >> >> I have three related questions: >> >> (1) Where is the Debian test farm? > > > > I suspect you are looking for our s390x porterbox[1]. :) > > >> (2) Does Debian provide access to non-Debian maintainers? >> (3) How can I acquire [possibly partial] access to it for s390 testing? >> >> If needed for (2), I'm willing to sign-up to be a Debain maintainer >> for the project which I have subject matter expertise. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > We have guest accounts[2] which might be what you are looking for. :) > If you get a guest account, you can use it to get a "chroot" for > building as described at [3]. > > As suggested in the beginning, if you have any further questions, please > follow up to debian-mentors. :) > Thanks Neils.
I owe you a cold beer if you ever make it to my side of town (the east coast of the US). Jeff
