> I've tried reproducing the daemon-reload bug report, unless I missed > something > obvious, daemon-reload works on my T2300, the TM Efficeon, and the > pre-SSE2 > Pentium 3 (mobile) that I have. I could try running it on an original > Pentium, but I doubt that debian will run on it at all, even when > ignoring the fact that the thing also only has 96M of ram, which is > to small to load a ramdisk and debian only targets i686. So the bug > might only apply to a very specific processor, unless there is a > patch > in the debian package.
There are no relevant patches in the Debian package. This is exactly the problem with supporting old and obsolete architectures, that are very difficult to find in the wild: things break in weird and incomprehensible ways, and nobody is able to fix them. This is one of the main jobs of porters: if you can't triage and fix this issue, then it's likely you won't be able to triage and fix other architecture- specific issues either, as this is very very likely a hidden compiler toolchain issue. The effort required to have a release architecture officially supported in Debian goes way beyond "I have an old machine under the desk and can build some trivial packages", I am afraid. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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