Hi, On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:58:52PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:31:58PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > just a heads up that Mips and Mipsel are 2 architectures in danger > > of beeing dropped by Debian if no one steps up as a porter beeing > > reachable for addressing architecture specific bugs. > > What components and packages are we talking about? Are we talking about > a fulltime job for a small army of geeks or? Its about dealing with architecture specific problems. Looking after ICEs, userspace asm stuff for debian packages where they break etc. A typical Debian Developer wont know about the mips specifics and needs someone to adress stuff to if the build breaks for architecture specific problems. Debian has formalizes the release criterias for their architectures concerning build architecture, availabibility of hardware and manpower to fix those problems. This is why there needs to be some names on the list. All the Debian architectures are depending on one another. So if a gcc build fails for parisc the new gcc cant propagate to stable/testing. So the release managers are keen on quickly fixing those bugs to not hold up all architectures progressing. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f@xxxxx
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