On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:12:38 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:40:26AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the main issue is that nobody's actively working > > on the debian sparc port in the first place. And without active > > maintainers, that port is actually a disservice to users and the sparc > > linux community. > > Even if nobody is currently volunteering to explicitly state that they are > working on the port as a whole (which has always been a fairly vague concept > anyway), the software is generally working fine (yes, even if it has bugs), > the buildds are happily churning (and are actually actively maintained), > new users do actually regularly come through, so I fail to see how it's > a disservice to everyone. > And yet sid's kernel has been broken for some time without anyone noticing. And yet nobody replies when a package maintainer needs a patch tested and asks on the port mailing list (which means X is broken in lenny right now). > What is that statement supposed to mean, anyway? Would you prefer if > the port didn't exist at all? > Than continue to exist without anyone volunteering to maintain it? Yes. But hey, you can still change that... Cheers, Julien -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
