Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-09-29 at 17:05 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/29/18 8:48 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [...] > > > Furthermore, several of the ports are in very healthy condition and > &g

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
nd fixed them. [...] So, by all means have fun working on these ports, but aside from ppc64 I don't see any prospect of them meeting release qualifications. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 15:48 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/01/2016 02:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > > This isn't the case for PowerPC32 where upstream development is still very > > > active because it's part of the PowerPC ker

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
which is why I hope > we can add sparc64 as an official port soon. [...] Oracle cares about Solaris on SPARC, not Linux on SPARC. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
don't need multiarch: [...] This is only the case because ppc64 has a lower level of support (unofficial port) than powerpc (release architecture).  The 64-bit kernel package should be dropped once powerpc is at the same or lower level of support than ppc64 - just as we've done for i386, s390 and sparc

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
-supported even in wheezy. The kernel doesn't boot on some common machines and no-one seems to be able to fix it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 09:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: [...] On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 18:48:20 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: 4. During a kernel package installation, upgrade or removal, various boot loader hooks may be invoked (in this order): a. A postinst_hook or postrm_hook command set

Re: How to stop building libv4l on non-Linux architectures

2008-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:16 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: Hi, I'm the maintainer of libv4l which passed the new queue yesterday. Obviously the package build failed on non-Linux architectures [1]. How do I handle this situation? Should I list all supported architectures in the control file,