Le Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> [2010-07-14 02:14:12 CEST]: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/SecondaryArchitectures > > Isn't that what <http://www.debian-ports.org/> is about, being second > class architectures?
Hi Gerfried, a key difference between Debian and Fedora in that case, is that Fedora's definition of secondary architectures has something like a social contract, where the mutual efforts, concessions and benefits are written down. Since Debian has the ressource for hosting some secondary architectures—the number of arches listed on buildd.debian.org/stats is 2–3 times the number on debian-ports.org—then I think that the current situation where Debian provides ressources to many ports is great. I am not proposing to remove them from our infrastructure and I suggested to not do so in my previous email. But treating the same a port that has 8 popcon users and ports that have 25,115 or 62,555 is in my opinion putting pressure on the maintainers with mostly intangible justification. I am not asking for throwing away people's work or ignoring their motivation, but I feel demotivated that I am asked efforts with nothing in return, since—and this is what makes this mail more or less on-topic in this thread—it is usually not the porter nor the users themselves who insist on putting a high priority for distributing scientific leaf package on their favorite architecture, but a policy that I challenge, enforced through the buildd maintainers by filing RC bugs. This is why I post in this thread, to ask for better coordination between the porters and the buildd maintainers, and in particular that build issues are at least presented equally to the porters and the package maintainer, instead of simply stamping a package “RC” and leave the burden of the work on the maintainer. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100714140750.ga10...@merveille.plessy.net