Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Martin Grimm wrote: I'm aware of popcon and as much as I'd appreciate it to see our systems counted there this will not happen because these are mainly production systems behind firewalls or in internal networks with no internet access and I've generally a bad

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the Debian-Installer part and I simply have not enough time to do the rest. The s390 architecture is quite different to anything else, so

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: I think a bigger question is where do you find hardware where you can get remote root on; I'm not very familiar with s390 or mainframes in general, but its not a piece of hardware one individual person would own. I'm aware of the Hercules

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-09-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 19, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Stephen R Marenka wrote: I think we do need to have a discussion about ports that don't build the full archive, but otherwise can make a stable release and get security support. Certainly m68k and likely arm users won't be running all the latest bloatware and thus

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:04 AM, Joseph Neal wrote: Why do you think people use debian? It's not the most up to date distro or the most stable (damn close though). Historically it's been the most free however. Hunh. What's more stable? Although I admire the Social Contract a great deal, and I

Re: Pushing gtk+2.0 (2.6.4-2)

2005-05-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 14, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: I assume the buildd will automatically requeue the package; any recommendation as to an action which would help the buildd maintainers, though? No, it does not and I marked it as failed. If the buildd is at OSDL, I can ask for more disk space