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

2006-11-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:56:17 +0100, Christian T Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:01:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:09:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-11-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:01:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:09:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On

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

2006-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:09:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: IIRC,

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

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
This was fixed in 2.6.17. First I've ever heard about it. The kernel cross-builds just fine. kernel-package might hiccup, though. Do you have examples of such hiccups? No. Please note the 'might' above :-). I do not use kernel-package. No offense meant, but I never got my head

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

2006-10-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Assumed m68k would be able to kill (most of) the backlog in time, what would prevent m68k from becoming releasable? - It didn't

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

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Yes, which has repeatedly

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

2006-10-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Assumed m68k would be able to kill (most of) the backlog in time, what would prevent m68k from becoming releasable? - It didn't sustain the `95%' rate during the last x

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

2006-10-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Yes, which has repeatedly caused problems due to assumptions in the kernel packaging that host arch == build

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

2006-10-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do care about it. But I see no particular reason for urgency about the particular bug, and obviously, the m68k team doesn't either. Obviously? They ignored it for a long time, and as far

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

2006-10-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: The m68k porters have been firmly against cross-compiling in the past, it's their call on whether this sort of approach is suitable. FWIW, it's my understanding he intends to run aranym on these systems, thereby making this native building

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

2006-10-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
Is the stuff at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ still current? It seems to be lacking stuff, according to the README. Err, it's a symlink to the code that's actually being used. What's missing? The contents of the testing/ subdirectory in there, according to the README

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

2006-10-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators to build and upload packages? The m68k porters have been firmly against cross-compiling in the past, it's their call on whether this sort of approach is suitable. Well, using an emulator as a buildd is generally not called

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

2006-10-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Yes, which has repeatedly caused problems due to assumptions in the kernel packaging that host arch == build

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

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
[-68k readded] On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Bill Allombert a ?crit : My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k buildd. That would lift most of the objection with the port. The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators

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

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Assumed m68k would be able to kill (most of) the backlog in time, what would prevent m68k from becoming releasable? - It didn't sustain the `95%' rate during the last x months? x=3, yes. The sustainability issue is

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

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:45:04PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: The reason we keep all architectures in sync is so that you end up running the same thing if you install Debian on any supported architecture. Otherwise you'd install Debian on i386 and

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

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:25:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Is the stuff at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ still current? It seems to be lacking stuff, according to the README. Err, it's a symlink to the code that's actually being used. What's missing? Cheers, aj

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

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: [-68k readded] On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Bill Allombert a ?crit : My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k buildd. That would lift most of the objection

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

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Bill Allombert a ?crit : My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k buildd. That would lift most of the objection with the port.

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

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Yes, which has repeatedly caused problems due to assumptions in the kernel packaging that host arch == build arch... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

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

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:02:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Bill Allombert a ?crit : My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k

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

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: 4 days and still no response to guile-1.6 patch... Maybe you should ask the guile-1.6 maintainer? I'm not responsible for the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then m68k would be a suitable release candidate for etch+1. As usual you're avoiding the issue. The answer is not _that_ simple. Really? What are the great mysterious complexities in it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point is that these release criteria have practically enforced a black and white scheme - either you're with us or you're on your own. Actually, Anthony Towns described about a half-dozen distinct possibilities, and outlined the advantages and

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

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm and here I thought you would care about this package, the way you constantly asked about its status... I do care about it. But I see no particular reason for urgency about the particular bug, and obviously, the m68k team doesn't either. Thomas --

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

2006-10-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:45:55PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point is that these release criteria have practically enforced a black and white scheme - either you're with us or you're on your own. Actually, Anthony Towns described about

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

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:41:59PM -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote: I have a Falcon/CT60 with EtherNAT (MII driver support for linux may or may not work easily), several compaq P3 xeon servers that could run aranym instances (all with very large 80+GB drives) and a M5484LITE board that could run

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

2006-10-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do care about it. But I see no particular reason for urgency about the particular bug, and obviously, the m68k team doesn't either. Obviously? They ignored it for a long time, and as far as I know, haven't requested the maintainer to treat it with

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

2006-10-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: Well, that's what we want as well and if m68k could provide this, what's the reason this couldn't be released as Debian? It won't be Debian etch or Debian stable, if it's different to etch/stable on other architectures. That wasn't my

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

2006-10-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: PS: 4 days and still no response to guile-1.6 patch... Maybe you should ask the guile-1.6 maintainer? I'm not responsible for the package. Hmm and here I thought you would care about this package, the way you constantly asked about its

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

2006-10-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Hmm and here I thought you would care about this package, the way you constantly asked about its status... I do care about it. But I see no particular reason for urgency about the particular bug, and obviously, the m68k team doesn't

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

2006-10-19 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: The reason we keep all architectures in sync is so that you end up running the same thing if you install Debian on any supported architecture. Otherwise you'd install Debian on i386 and have the latest features, but install Debian on alpha and have an

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
So, if someone could give me a brief intro as to how testing migration of I really ought to have dropped the 'brief' there :-) packages works, and what would be needed to modify britney, I'd welcome it. The idea, presumably, would be to have a separate britney instance just for

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
arm 11:44:41 m68k 26:39:13 m68k is an order of a magnitude slower and that's not acceptable. I do not doubt m68k is a lot slower. We'll need to find a way to more intelligently schedule packages that require a lot of space or RAM to build. The Falcon/CT60 could help a lot there, even

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

2006-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:43:03AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: The point is that m68k gets kicked out _before_ any alternative has been implemented. Well, yeah, but it's not because we weren't given a fair chance. I'm not happy about this any more than you are, but this doesn't help. Sorry.

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

2006-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:00:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:49:50AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Oh well... It doesn't meet the release criteria because of the toolchain problems, that have now been solved. No, it hasn't. You need to be reliably abouve

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

2006-10-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 October 2006 11:14, Michael Schmitz wrote: That's the point where I'll need a more elaborate introduction to britney. The 'hints' is some file where you define preferred solutions for these conflict situations, did I get that right? [...] Much appreciated. Maybe you can give me

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

2006-10-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote: Another buildd for stable-security seems a good idea, but the problem of peak times remains. And that's where both improved scheduling and closer coordination would help. Meaning I'd appreciate some advance warning if something big comes down

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Much appreciated. Maybe you can give me some help to get started. Maybe just looking here will give you an idea: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/ There's even a README :-) That's what I absolutely _love_ about Debian. Just about anybody is real helpful. /sarcasm It does give

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

2006-10-19 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Are there stats about memory, disk, and CPU usage for the previous build, upon which you can base decisions about which buildd to use? Not really. Of course there are some lines about build times and disk usage in every (successful) build log on buildd.debian.org.

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
And that's where both improved scheduling and closer coordination would help. Meaning I'd appreciate some advance warning if something big comes down the pipeline, so we can shunt it to the right machine to deal with it. Are there stats about memory, disk, and CPU usage for the previous

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
The suite itself? ftpmaster would make it, and a britney script would be cronned to handle it. That shouldn't require any particular attention though. + keeps the arch alive - some work to keep m68k-testing in sync with real testing needed Who's doing

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

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Maybe just looking here will give you an idea: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/ There's even a README :-) That's what I absolutely _love_ about Debian. Just about anybody is real helpful. /sarcasm I'll take that back. Frans was actually being helpful here. Is the stuff at

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

2006-10-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Bill Allombert a écrit : On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing

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

2006-10-19 Thread Mark Duckworth
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:01 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 19 October 2006 11:14, Michael Schmitz wrote: That's the point where I'll need a more elaborate introduction to britney. The 'hints' is some file where you define preferred solutions for these conflict situations, did I get

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

2006-10-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: Insisting that m68k could never meet the architecture release requirements doesn't make me think we're being unfair to m68k, it reinforces my belief that cutting m68k from the full release was the correct decision. The arch criteria weren't

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

2006-10-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that's what we want as well and if m68k could provide this, what's the reason this couldn't

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

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 03:43, Roman Zippel wrote: No, releasing with etch is out of the question -- m68k doesn't meet the release criteria. Well, this means the release criteria have been designed in a way that m68k never could have met them anyway, m68k was practically fucked either

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

2006-10-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own testing-like suite of some description + keeps the arch alive - some work to keep m68k-testing in sync with real testing needed - doesn't have real

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

2006-10-18 Thread Riccardo
Hello, On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, at 03:43 AM, Roman Zippel wrote: Outside of the m68k team I have unfortunately not seen any serious effort to actually accommodate the needs the smaller ports. Debian has been the home for a wide range of users, but that's unfortunately not true any

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

2006-10-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:30:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: What are the porters wanted to say? We want to release with Etch? No, releasing with etch is out of the question -- m68k doesn't meet the release criteria. Oh

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

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:43, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: And I have not seen any serious work or proposals from m68k porters in this direction either. Not? Especially Roman has put great effort into fixing bugs and making the toolchain stable again during the last weeks. That is about

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

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:49:50AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Oh well... It doesn't meet the release criteria because of the toolchain problems, that have now been solved. No, it hasn't. You need to be reliably abouve 95% for the entirety of:

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

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:37:59AM +0200, Riccardo wrote: Debian has always been also one of the linux distributions which supported more architectures, I have used it a bit as netbsd of linux. Just think of the long-standing efforts in 68k, hurd or sparc. We shouldn't loose our roots. So

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

2006-10-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:08:35AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 03:43, Roman Zippel wrote: The question is what to do _instead_. The point is that m68k gets kicked out _before_ any alternative has been implemented. _Any_ m68k work has been in vain from the very

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

2006-10-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own testing-like suite of some description + keeps the arch alive - some work to keep m68k-testing in sync

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

2006-10-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own testing-like suite of some description + keeps the arch alive

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

2006-10-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:44:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own

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

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
I *have* asked about the possibility to maintain our own slightly-different m68k distribution (similar to how amd64 works for sarge) on debian.org servers, but have not heard anything about that. I recall hearing a response much along the lines 'we could do that, but that would require changes

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

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Well, we have offers for ftp-master roles out of Debian. Still, I think it is better for everyone to have a (maybe) reduced set of packages being released with etch. It's not the ftpmaster stuff that needs to be done, it's the RM and security stuff. Security stuff for *sarge* is already a

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

2006-10-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I believe there are some problems because we don't want to have too many versions of the same source package, that's why this is not generalized and why we try to keep all arches in sync. It would be nice to know whether these problems are show

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

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
(dropping all individual CCs; please don't CC me) On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:55, Loïc Minier wrote: In other words, it would be nice if the switch could be transparent to m68k users so that they do not have to change setups or tweak an unstable snapshot. Note that a separate archive

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

2006-10-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:43:03AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: The question is what to do _instead_. The point is that m68k gets kicked out _before_ any alternative has been implemented. m68k has not been kicked out -- it's still in etch

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

2006-10-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Frans Pop wrote: The point is that m68k gets kicked out _before_ any alternative has been implemented. _Any_ m68k work has been in vain from the very beginning and the question is now only how some of it can be salvaged... Come on. This attitude is not going

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

2006-10-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:37:59AM +0200, Riccardo wrote: Debian has always been also one of the linux distributions which supported more architectures, I have used it a bit as netbsd of linux. Just think of the long-standing efforts in

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

2006-10-18 Thread Riccardo
Hello Roman, On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, at 05:18 PM, Roman Zippel wrote: This build attempt is from before gcj was fixed and once the buildd gets to it, it will build fine. What's the point of this? arm fails to build this currently, do they get kicked out now because of this? You

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

2006-10-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Riccardo wrote: On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, at 05:18 PM, Roman Zippel wrote: This build attempt is from before gcj was fixed and once the buildd gets to it, it will build fine. What's the point of this? arm fails to build this currently, do they get kicked out

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

2006-10-18 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Michael Schmitz wrote: It's not the ftpmaster stuff that needs to be done, it's the RM and security stuff. Security stuff for *sarge* is already a problem, with the xfree86 update currently blocking the release of r4, due to lack of an m68k build, eg. Build times for kdebase_4:3.3.2-1sarge3:

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

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I believe there are some problems because we don't want to have too many versions of the same source package, that's why this is not generalized and why we try to keep all arches in

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

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:59:20PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Regarding a solution for m68k beyond etch - I'd prefer to keep m68k snapshots on a basis like you mentioned: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own testing-like suite of some description

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

2006-10-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
Anthony Towns schrieb am Donnerstag, den 19. Oktober 2006: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:59:20PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Regarding a solution for m68k beyond etch - I'd prefer to keep m68k snapshots on a basis like you mentioned: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its

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

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing

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

2006-10-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: The reason we keep all architectures in sync is so that you end up running the same thing if you install Debian on any supported architecture. Otherwise you'd install Debian on i386 and have the latest features, but install Debian on alpha and

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

2006-10-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that's what we want as well and if m68k could provide this, what's the reason this couldn't be released as Debian? So far, m68k *can't* provide it. That's the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

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

2006-10-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that's what we want as well and if m68k could provide this, what's the reason this couldn't be released as Debian? So far, m68k *can't* provide it. That's the problem. Which we are

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

2006-10-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that's what we want as well and if m68k could provide this, what's the reason this couldn't be released as Debian? So far, m68k *can't* provide it.

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

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:12:40PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: I can understand you are disappointed, but please try to be constructive and help create the best support for m68k possible given the decision that was made and work to get m68k to be a fully supported arch again for etch+1.

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:53:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You did not ask Roman to provide examples of fixes are just stuck in the BTS, you picked your own bug and then complains it is not a good example ? Is not that non-sense ? No, what

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Does this explain why guile-1.6 is still not compiled for m68k? Maybe you just wanted to know if the bug is solved in the meanwhile, but your way to ask is very, uhm, bad, because it includes some sort of attack. Your question can be understood

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

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:28:55AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It's not like I hunted around for problems, I simply looked at the cases closest to the packages I maintain, asking why don't they work on m68k? I expected you would have realised by that time that you maintain some of the

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:28:55AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It's not like I hunted around for problems, I simply looked at the cases closest to the packages I maintain, asking why don't they work on m68k? I expected you would have realised

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the porters wanted to say? We want to release with Etch? I think that's obvious and the porters are doing their best to keep the port going and keeping up as much as possible. Why is the most recent g-wrap still not compiled for m68k? I

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:28:55AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Um, You'll note that g-wrap also has not been built, another dependency of gnucash. Version 1.9.6-3.1 was uploaded on September 7, and gnucash depends on that version. It's not like I hunted around for problems, I simply

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh well... you already know that m68k suffered from serious toolchain problems, which are fixed now thanks to Roman, Stephen Marenka and others, and that the w-b queueing algorithm is not known to be very intelligent, i.e. it doesn't queue in order

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh well... you already know that m68k suffered from serious toolchain problems, which are fixed now thanks to Roman, Stephen Marenka and others, and that the w-b queueing algorithm is not known to be very intelligent, i.e. it doesn't queue in order

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

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:02:28AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: And that's why g-wrap hasn't been built, or is it irrelevant? Yes, this is irrelevant for this thread as the topic of this thread is m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans? and not Thomas Bushnell

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

2006-10-17 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:42:30AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:28:55AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It's not like I hunted around for problems, I simply looked at the cases closest to the packages I

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

2006-10-17 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Why is the most recent g-wrap still not compiled for m68k? Because it's waiting for guile-1.6? How about instead of only complaining you contact the maintainer and ask him to check out the patch and release a fixed package? bye, Roman --

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

2006-10-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing

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

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061017 14:19]: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for

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

2006-10-17 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: - m68k can live without gcj-4.1 for some time, I think, so omit those from the release Actually gcj-4.1 is not an issue anymore (besides current build dependencies), according to the test results it works for us now even better than for arm

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

2006-10-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-17 14:18]: The toolchain looks to be in pretty good shape right now and with the next gcc update every reported problem will be fixed This is slightly off-topic here, but I have not seen any of your m68k GCC fixes been submitted and incorporated

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

2006-10-17 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-17 14:18]: The toolchain looks to be in pretty good shape right now and with the next gcc update every reported problem will be fixed This is slightly off-topic here, but I have not seen any of

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

2006-10-17 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Ingo Juergensmann a écrit : On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:42:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked

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

2006-10-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, this is irrelevant for this thread as the topic of this thread is m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans? and not Thomas Bushnell would like to see his packages being built on m68k. Maybe that's disappointing for you

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

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I've seen, no concrete suggestions on what the m68k porters want to do about this. I *have* asked about the possibility to maintain our own slightly-different m68k distribution (similar to how amd64 works for sarge) on

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

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: buildds: 19 There are 19 buildds actively uploading packages for m68k (Aug 20 to present). This indicates that individual buildds are roughly an order of magnitude slower than those for other architectures, which makes m68k a limiting

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

2006-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: As a result, the bts is already ignoring m68k in calculating a bug's applicability for the testing distribution, at the release team's request. As someone who has recently looked at and fixed many problems, I must say the

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