On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:10:06PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > 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. Sounds like this is really a job for a number of specialists in various fields. You also mentioned the availability of hardware. How's the situation there wrt. to MIPS? Ralf
