On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:17:50 -0400 (EDT), Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:10:19 +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: >> I'm a Debian Maintainer who is having some problems with a package >> (grfcode) on s390. Can you get me access to a porter box so I can try to >> fix the problems? > Never mind, we've managed to test this in an emulator already.
Sorry for the slow response. Frans Pop, one of the s390 porters, and the one who monitored this list most closely, died recently. (See http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100831.) It will no doubt take the Debian s390 port some time to recover from his loss. Since Debian is an all-volunteer organization, and since we have no corporate sponsorship from IBM for system z, IBM System z servers are hard to come by for the Debian project. (Not too many private individuals have a 64-bit mainframe in their basements.) Frans himself used the Hercules emulator running under Linux on an Intel box, I believe, to do his work, and I suspect (but do not know for certain) that the production build servers do as well. Frans was doing the daily builds of the squeeze Debian installer for the s390 platform himself, the last I knew. I just tried the link myself: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/s390/images/daily/ and got a "404 - not found" error; so we have no more daily builds. That issue needs to be addressed. I have access to a real IBM mainframe owned by my employer, and I can sometimes test things for Debian, if it is in my employer's interests to do so; but I am not in a position to offer a "porter box" to Debian. It doesn't belong to me. I run Debian for s390 in a virtual machine under z/VM; so if there's anything VM-specific that needs tested, I might be able to help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
