Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-03 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Matthias, Like Patrick, I'm only an IA-64 end-user but already had reported bugs, some bisected. I had contributed to 2-3 patches in the past, but that's all. Is this what you expect from an IA-64 porter? Or maybe is there a Debian resource explaining in details his/her duties? Emeric

Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-03 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: On 02.05.2012 18:07, Patrick Baggett wrote: Matthias, I wouldn't mind helping a bit, as I'd like to see GCC 4.7 be the default on ia64. I'm good at C/C++ programming and can definitely provide upstream patches, but

Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-03 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 03/05/12 16:42, Patrick Baggett a écrit : On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org mailto:d...@debian.org wrote: On 02.05.2012 18:07, Patrick Baggett wrote: Matthias, I wouldn't mind helping a bit, as I'd like to see GCC 4.7 be the default

Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-02 Thread Patrick Baggett
Matthias, I wouldn't mind helping a bit, as I'd like to see GCC 4.7 be the default on ia64. I'm good at C/C++ programming and can definitely provide upstream patches, but I have absolutely no idea what the debian way of doing things is -- right now, I'm an end-user. What can I do? Patrick On

Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.05.2012 18:07, Patrick Baggett wrote: Matthias, I wouldn't mind helping a bit, as I'd like to see GCC 4.7 be the default on ia64. I'm good at C/C++ programming and can definitely provide upstream patches, but I have absolutely no idea what the debian way of doing things is -- right

ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-01 Thread Matthias Klose
A request to recheck for ia64 build failures ([1]) wasn't answered, same with a question wether to default GCC to 4.7 on this architecture ([2]). I am not aware of anybody within the Debian GCC Maintainers wanting to address the IA64 specific issues. Please step up, if you want to help with IA64