Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Riccardo wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, at 05:18 PM, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > This build attempt is from before gcj was fixed and once the buildd gets
> > to it, it will build fine.
> > What's the point of this? arm fails to build this currently, do they get
> > kicked out now because of this?
>
> You did a lot for 68k from what I read, but calm down a moment! I think that
> in this case Steve (which I don't know) asked if I could do something for
> kaffe since technically I am one of the "upstream" of kaffe. Probably he
> inferred that by looking at my email address. So maybe we can both have a look
> at this, the more packages working in m68k the better!
Assumed m68k would be able to kill (most of) the backlog in time, what would
prevent m68k from becoming releasable?
- It didn't sustain the `95%' rate during the last x months?
- Some packages still don't build?
- The release team has to come back on a decision made a while ago?
- ...?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
P.S. This email is not meant to be offensive. I'd just like to have a clear,
objective list of reasons, so we know towards what to work.
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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