On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:05:49AM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > > The developer machines have been unavailable for months, so Debian > > > developers who don't have their own hppa machine are unable to work on > > > their own packages or fix bugs. > > > > We had some machines setup and running last year....what happened to them? > > Is lamont the only person able to support those? > > The DD accessible machine is paer.debian.org and there are a few hppa > buildd machines that are just accessible by the buildd folks like lamont. > These machines are all supported by DSA and run Debian stable. ... [ snip ]
Matt, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize it had gotten that ugly. But I also don't see a way for us to support etch since it feels like we barely have enough people to support kernel.org + unstable (debian). Not unless some new folks wants to volunteer to help. I'd be happy to review patches for this and provide guidance. > > My impression was my and Thibaut's efforts to provide public access > > to parisc/ia64 machines has covered the visible need. > > But that's been informal and not a substitute for having official > > machines up and running. > > I'm not sure how Thibaut is generating his kernels and running his > machines, but if he can do it in a DSA supportable manner (which means etch > userspace and kernel packages up to date with security patches) then maybe > he can help get the debian.org machines accessible again. I suspect he is > probably running unstable and building kernels by hand though... Yes, as am I (though I'm not a DD). thanks, grant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]