On Tuesday 10 of March 2009, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:41:12PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > I'm considering dropping athlon architecture since I see no real gain > > over i686. athlon would be deleted from ftp and athlon->i686 symlink > > created. > > Personally I use "athlon", but for binary crap only, which is built for > i386/i586 anyways, so I'm OK with dropping it.
Could some athlon*rpm owner see if upgrading athlon->i686 is nicely handled in poldek (as amd64->x86_64 is for example) ? > > > The other platform is ppc. There is unforuntately close to zero > > developers solving ppc related bugs :-( ppc would be moved to unsupported > > or something like unofficial sparc (AIDA) as seen on ftp. Someone would > > have to step in to maintain this. > > Even tho I'm not very acrive (lately), I could step up as ppc maintainer > when it becomes AIDA. > > I could be fixing the packages I use, or if someone asks me nicely to > fix some (payment in goats no longer accepted). All the packages that > build cleanly on main th archs and have no history of being problematic > on powerpc would be send to ppc builder as well. If some package starts > to give problems and there would be noone to fix it, it would be > banned from ppc builder and last package in main repository would be > kept until its bependencies become broken. Then it would be deleted from > main without prior warning. > > What you think about such solution ? Works for me. After it disappears from Th I don't care about it (unless I'll become owner of some ppc again, which is unlikely). -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
