Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > If > > you think, that availability of compilers on some architectures > > should be release criterium, please bring that up with the release > > team first. > That's not at all what I think. > > I think that if there are known binutils bugs for your architecture, which > supposedly prevent the build of multiple packages -- > /either/ forwarding them upstream > /or/ fixing them if they're Debian-specific > /or/ closing them if they're bogus > within a reasonable amount of time (less than a year) > should be a requirement for a port to be considered. > > Does the release team agree or disagree? > > According to Thiemo Seufer, MIPS has failed this criterion.
You are mistaken (since I'm also upstream). I notice you seem to triage pre-sarge bug reports, maybe you want to ask the participants of the bugs discussion first before jumping to conclusions. > He said that GCJ is not present and does not build due to an ld bug which > also > affected ghc (http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/10/msg00051.html). > However, contrary to his claim, there are no bug reports filed regarding this > for ghc. The only such bug I could find was > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274738. This bug is *not* > reported upstream. It has had no activity since November 2004. According to > David Daney (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2004/10/msg00016.html) and > indeed Matthias Klose > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2004/10/msg00020.html) it is > unreproducible. I asked David at that time for which configuration he got actually working large executables/libraries which don't segfault on startup. I got no response. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]