Re: Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-20 Thread Axel Beckert
ectures, e.g. release architectures. So yes, I'm in favour of doing so. I'll prepare an upload, but I will ask for pre-approval with the release team before actually uploading it. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/

Re: Bug#745938: FWIW -- I consider sparc useful, pity if its support ends completely

2014-04-29 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Sébastien, Sébastien Bernard wrote: Why not dropping the m68k port too then ? It has been droppend many years ago. P.S.: I appreciate your effort a lot! Thanks! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian

Re: Sparc status ?

2014-04-28 Thread Axel Beckert
). It's good to hear that there are least some hardware architectures where recent kernels are more stable than on all my UltraSparcs. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin

Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Axel Beckert
it in the archive much longer. I'd really appreciate if sparc would be kept in the archive, but I fear that's not realistic. So I think the best is probably to move it to Debian Ports. :-( Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe

JFTR: Bug #721498 (ITA: silo) is work in progress

2013-11-25 Thread Axel Beckert
as I'm on the road travelling a bit often currently, but next weekend sounds realistic. (Can't test _that_ package remotely, i.e. need to be at home for preparing the upload. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe

sparc64 buildd state wrt. Perl transition (was: Re: Results of the porter roll call)

2013-10-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Michael Cree wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:06:01AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:44:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Yesterday I tried to setup a sparc64 chroot on a second disc in one of my Sparcs, but the currently documented way

Re: sparc64 buildd state wrt. Perl transition

2013-10-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Aurelien, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:09:18PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: I'd also volunteer as sparc64 buildd admin as there seems to be some need for it. Cc'ing ad...@debian-ports.org for that. I though have no experience as buildd admin so far and hence

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2011/05/msg00030.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
. That's ok. I just thought it may help to install Stable and then dist-upgrade to unstable to workaround this issue. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067

Re: Bug#721498: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Jurij, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: I'll create the git repository on Alioth and push my changes as soon as I've got write permissions to /git/debootloaders/. I approved your membership request, so you should be good to go now

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Him Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:44:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Yesterday I tried to setup a sparc64 chroot on a second disc in one of my Sparcs, but the currently documented way[1] to do so failed[2] due to outdated packages. On a first glance it looks like missing

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: Frans van Berckel wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable libtext-iconv-perl

Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-01 Thread Axel Beckert
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Re: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-01 Thread Axel Beckert
repository. I'll create the git repository on Alioth and push my changes as soon as I've got write permissions to /git/debootloaders/. Further co-maintainers of course still welcome! :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe

Re: list of active sparc port maintainers

2013-09-04 Thread Axel Beckert
SILO, but I fear my (arch-specific) C knowledge is not deep enough for that -- despite Jurij wrote that the main point is having access to a Sparc and that part is given for me. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Axel Beckert
on sparc) - read debian-sparc@l.d.o about once a month I am a DD. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE

Re: Kernel 3.2 and Ultra 5

2013-07-15 Thread Axel Beckert
, no information there either. For me it once froze after 15 minutes and once after ca. 50 minutes. No cron.hourly cron-jobs which could have triggered that. The machine doesn't have much permanently running stuff installed as it's just an NTP server. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-02 Thread Axel Beckert
/bugreport.cgi?bug=584725 unresolved after almost three years, all I can say is that you have no shame. What does this have to do with CD images testing? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer

Re: SPARC daily d-i builds

2011-01-12 Thread Axel Beckert
. (I also have some more 32-bit Sparcs, but I know that _they_ won't help. ;-) If any of them could help I'll see what I can do (which is also mostly a function of time.)-: Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian