On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:08:14AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote: > On 22/02/2005 at 10:11 Wouter Verhelst wrote... > <snip> > > I agree that we should not continue to provide software for outdated > > hardware platforms just for the sake of it; but as it is, there are > > still people interested in m68k (some hobbyists, some embedded > > developers, some who just use their old trusty hardware as their home > > firewall, etc) and, I'm sure, other currently less-used hardware, so as > > long as a port doesn't continually stall the release (which none > > currently does; there are occasionally problems, but that happens in > > every major undertaking), I see no reason to drop any port. > > Regarding this issue I was thinking about it since I've faced in a > situation where a package[0] I maintain does have "high" hardware > requirements, which led me to think if it is really wise to have it > with "arch: any" since probably in some arches it would not ever be > installed/used, or even if case it will run really slow or even crash > and the user will not enjoy the software as was intended by upstream, [...] > I don't know much about buildd infrastructure[1], if such thing was > proposed or commented before (didn't check archives),
It has been brought up before a few times on the m68k mailinglists (and perhaps others too, but I don't follow those). The answer is pretty complex. In short: don't remove an architecture from your Architecture: line unless it * crashes, * is something that requires so much CPU time that using it on hardware of which a >100Mhz variant does not exist /will/ make the system trash and be generally unusable until you hit the reset button, or * does not compile I once wrote the long story in my blog; you can find it at <http://www.livejournal.com/users/wouterverhelst/2742.html> (it being a rant in reply to people shouting 'we should drop foo from Debian/m68k!', it doesn't entirely fit into this thread, but apart from that, it explains it). -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]