On 2009-11-18, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Well, I do not think that you can do gene sequencing or number crunching > on current mobile phones. So there are really programs which are not > needed on all architectures and even if you find a binary package which > claims to do the job it is just useless. Even if I agree with your > arguing that each program at least theoretically should build on any > architecture (if not it is a bug) in some cases it looks foolish to > provide binary packages just for the sake of it. This is was Charles > meant when he wrote: We should trust the maintainer if a specific > program is not needed for a certain architecture.
Or the porters (c.f. xorg video or drivers on s390). But that's what P-a-s is for, at the moment. Still it ought to be buildable everywhere, there might not be clusters of arm yet but I saw offers for clusters of mips. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
