On 2014-01-30 16:23, Robert Millan wrote: > On 30/01/2014 00:03, Niels Thykier wrote: >> @Robert: Re your "Could you elaborate?". I haven't forgotten it, but I >> out of time - so I will get back to you on that. > > It's ok. > > I wanted more detail both on the problem and on the solution. You just > provided > the second, which I believe is the most important. >
Okay - as promised, the problem side. As I see it, there are two concrete problems with the (number of) supported packages. First, the number of packages actually built on kFreeBSD is just shy of 90%, whereas most other release architectures are at 96%[1]. Here kFreeBSD has increased in the past quarter from ~89.5% to "almost, but not quite 90%". Secondly, there are cases like GDM, where a single unsupported package have rather "long reaching" consequences. In the concrete example, GNOME (via gnome-core) strictly depends on gdm3, meaning that if gdm3 goes, (more or less) all of gnome goes with it[2]. That in turn means that task-gnome-desktop cannot be installed on kFreeBSD (I presume this will at least affect d-i). Here we need you to assess what can you reasonably support. Once we know that we can look at the consequences and how to deal with them. By the way, when you present your set of supported packages, please consider highlighting where you would like the "default" package set to be different from current release architectures. E.g. with the TC's decision on init systems, Linux will be using systemd as default init system[3]. I presume kFreeBSD will go with a different init system. ~Niels [1] https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png The notable exception here being s390x, which is at ~93%. [2] I vaguely remember something XDM being a possible alternative to GDM, but never mind that for now. [3] Here I bluntly assume there will not be a GR overturning that decision. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52fbd439.1070...@thykier.net
