Matthias Klose wrote: > Grant Grundler schrieb: >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Grant Grundler wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: >>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00303.html >>> Note that it's wrong to assume we will come with the answers. >> I was expecting a summary of specific issues from an organization >> that claims to operate transperently. The hand waving is easy. But >> doesn't resolve problems and doesn't meet my expectation of an "open" >> organization that I've donated money, time, and materials to. > > +1. dropping hppa as a release architecture was not communicated by the release > team at all. I did spend some time to get gcj / default-jdk working on hppa, > and some money (buying a new disk for a hppa machine) to help this port. The > time and the money could have spent better, if d-r would have better > communicated about their intent. There are issues with the hppa port where the release team considered dropping it since 2005 communicated to the porter list... > hppa is not in a good shape, but there are other architectures which are not > better (sparc, mips*) from a toolchain point of view. what about these? I'm not aware of current toolchain issues on sparc and the issues on mips* still seem to be manageable, no? > there are issues pointed out and not addressed like the -dev / -headers packages > built as binary independent packages just to save disk space, which have an > impact on "slow" architectures, and which are not addressed by the release team. > would the release team mind addressing these real issues, or should we drop > "slow" architectures as well? Well, this Packages issue is clearly a responsability from the FTP Team and the Release Team would indeed be very happy to have that resolved. Cheers Luk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
