etch --> lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-08-23 Thread Bob Tracy
(The subject change seemed appropriate...) On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:06:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:35:56AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > I recently > > upgraded the Alpha from etch to lenny (feedback available if anyone is > > interested) > > Yes, feedback is c

Re: lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Bob, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:35:56AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Are there other developers still actively using alpha who are willing to do > > the work to maintain it? Or perhaps a more important question: does anyone > > foresee themselves still using alpha three years from now (1.5 ye

Re: Build dependencies and the alpha autobuilder

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:16:48AM +0200, FRANCISCO MOYA FERNANDEZ wrote: > I'm currently maintaining zeroc-ice packages and noticed that > http://buildd.debian.org/zeroc-ice > reports that some architectures are waiting for mysterious build > dependencies. > The alpha autobuilder is waiting f

Re: lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-23 Thread Jose Luis Rivero
Hi all: First of all, I'm quite sad to see Debian stopping the support for the Alpha architecture but I (as Gentoo/Alpha developer) can understand you very well when talking about benefits vs problems generating to the distribution in order to keep active the port and the people needed to maintai

Build dependencies and the alpha autobuilder

2008-08-23 Thread FRANCISCO MOYA FERNANDEZ
Hi, I'm currently maintaining zeroc-ice packages and noticed that http://buildd.debian.org/zeroc-ice reports that some architectures are waiting for mysterious build dependencies. The alpha autobuilder is waiting for default-jdk-builddep which is a Build-Depends-Indep, not needed for building