Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:24:04PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:14 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: My concern is the same as that of the Project

Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:10:59AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:31 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: Moreover, I seriously doubt that this is an honest argument. I think you just want to decide the architecture name yourself. No, I would just prefer consistency.

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello, This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. On 05-Mar-14 16:14, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Also, as with the amd64 port, there is disagreement about the name. While ppc64 would be nicer and in line with the LSB, our current PowerPC port is called powerpc and therefore it would make

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. Which group? According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel there are currently two competing efforts for this port. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. Which group? According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:14 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: My concern is the same as that of the Project Leader, that the existing powerpc port is called powerpc -- and that we should

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. Which group?

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:24:04PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: Because it's a 64-bit version of an already supported architecture. Having ppc and ppc64 would be fine, as would having powerpc and powerpc64. Having powerpc and ppc64 is inconsistent. and deviating from an already

Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Anyway, the biarch approach will also need a 'dpkg' which supports separate 64-bit ppc64 packages in the end. What are your concerns? Do you refuse to support a native 64-bit powerpc64/ppc64 port? Or do you want a different name for it? I think there is not real point in doing so, or

Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
However, I still do not understand why you and/or the Project Leader want to override the decision of the porters and choose a different name than the LSB specifies. I am not saying that Debian should always follow the LSB blindly, but I cannot see a good reason for deviating from the LSB

Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:24 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:14 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: My concern is the same as that of the Project Leader, that

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 22:24, Scott James Remnant wrote: So you would add 'powerpc64' support to dpkg if the port changes its package name accordingly? Yes, that'd be applied to the 1.13 branch straight away. However, I still do not understand why you and/or the Project Leader want to

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:31 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 22:24, Scott James Remnant wrote: So you would add 'powerpc64' support to dpkg if the port changes its package name accordingly? Yes, that'd be applied to the 1.13 branch straight away. However, I still do

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-17 00:10, Scott James Remnant wrote: No, I would just prefer consistency. You've deliberately chosen an architecture name that's jarringly different from your 32-bit variant; that's a rather bold thing to do, and I think you need to justify that. The decision to use the name 'ppc64'

Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:57 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-17 00:10, Scott James Remnant wrote: No, I would just prefer consistency. You've deliberately chosen an architecture name that's jarringly different from your 32-bit variant; that's a rather bold thing to do, and I think

Bug#263743: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:07 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:57 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-17 00:10, Scott James Remnant wrote: No, I would just prefer consistency. You've deliberately chosen an architecture name that's jarringly different from