Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:11:55AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:

> > We are keeping patches[7] for the armeb port separate, and are ready to
> > contribute them now, or at any future time that is more appropriate.
> > Another chicken-and-egg - are package maintainers expected to accept
> > patches for architectures that are not yet official?
> 
> What kind of patches are these?
> 
>  - general porting issues uncovered by armeb (and not uncovered on other 
> bigendian arches for some reason):  I guess these should be immediately 
> submitted.
>  - things like configure scripts etc.:  these are normally quite small and 
> isolated, so I don't see a reason to not submit these.

So far we have (for sarge):
- patches for apt, build-essential, cdrdao, dpkg, gcc, glibc, kaffe,
  libsdl, linux-kernel-headers, ltrace, makedev, mozilla, strace and
  util-linux to teach their config scripts/files et al. about the
  armeb architecture;
- patches for gal, libgc, quagga to hack around build/runtime failures;
- patches for "all ARMs are little-endian" assumptions: apt, glibc, gmp,
  modutils, ocaml (hackish), openssl, xfree86;
- patches for gcc to make arm*b-*-* default to big-endian;
- a patch for gcc 3.3 to work around PR22528 which (only) happens on
  big-endian;

We're slowly starting to compile stuff for unstable, beginning with
binutils/gcc/glibc, and we'll port these patches to unstable as we go
along.

The patches we have so far can be found at:

	http://ftp.debonaras.org/patches/


cheers,
Lennert