Re: Updating w.d.o/{intro/organization#distribution,ports/}
Martin - Looking on the page, although it hasn't been updated since
2009, I don't see anything about the debian-interix port demise. If it
really is dead, maybe it's time to add something saying so?
http://www.debian-interix.net/
- Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> the debian-interix port is currently dead, see also here for details on the
> fate of the Interix kernel:
> http://www.suacommunity.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=19631
>
> The development has been stalled because so many annoying bugs exist in the
> Interix closed-source kernel DLLs, and MS doesn't care.
> Also, there is still no gcc/binutils 64-bit for Windows available.
> The binutils part should really be done by MS, as they know the PE-COFF
> binary format best, but they don't care, either.
>
> So David, if you want to, and only if you want to, you may include the
> debian-interix port in the ports page (it currently isn't listed at all) as
> currently dead project, just for completeness of the page. It might be
> re-animated, when a real development of the Interix kernel should occur at
> some time.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, David Prévot wrote:
>
>> [ Huge cross-post, sorry. Please, only respond to your port list and
>> debian-www@l.d.o, or at least keep me CC if you drop debian-www ]
>>
>> Hi ports and ports-like team,
>>
>> Le 05/04/2012 16:27, David Prévot a écrit :
>>
>>> The ports and ports-like part of our organization page [1] might be
>>> pretty outdated on the members side. Could you please confirm that the
>>> members list of your team is still accurate, or provide an updated list.
>>> Without any answer within a week, I'll drop the members name from this
>>> page, but will keep the name of the port and a link to the mailing list
>>> as main contact point. If you answer after a week, I'll also be happy to
>>> update the page afterwards.
>>
>>
>> It's been a long week? Thanks to Bill (Alpha), Dann (IA-64), Thorsten
>>
>> (m68k), Carlos and John (PA-RISC), Samuel and Svante (GNU/Hurd), and
>> Christoph and Arno (GNU/kFreeBSD), the organization page [1] has just
>> been updated.
>>
>>
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/intro/organization.data?r1=1.428&r2=1.429
>>
>> If you have a second thought, please don't hesitate to reply so we can
>> update the page [1].
>>
>>> 1: http://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution
>>>
>>> If you have any update to propose about your port page [2], I'd also be
>>> happy to update the respective page on your behalf, and would be even
>>> happier if you do it yourself (please, ask for write access [3] if
>>> you're not already a member of webwml).
>>>
>>> 2: http://www.debian.org/ports/
>>> 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs#write-access
>>
>>
>> The offer still stands ;-)
>>
>>> We also have one open bug report [4] about the www.d.o/ports/ part,
>>> specific to amd64, any help to solve it would be welcome (closing it in
>>> case it doesn't make sense could also be appropriate).
>>>
>>> 4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611830
>>
>>
>> This one too?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David
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