Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:09:00PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
>
> > My question is now:
> > What is the *exact* plan for m68k for Etch and beyond?
>
> IMO as long as there are few people who have the power to veto m68k out of
> existence, I don't see much further hope for m68k within Debian.
> The absolutely worst mistake was to generally downgrade _all_ m68k
> specific bugs - m68k can't get a realease arch until the bugs are fixed
> and bugs don't get fixed if they are not serious and testing becomes
> useless for m68k.
Yes, I agree. Which is why I've proposed a BoF for debconf about the
failure of m68k to make etch. This certainly is one of the reasons --
another is the fact that our compiler was totally bollocks when 4.0 and
4.1 were initially released, which generated a rather huge backlog for
us which we never really recovered from (or at least, it took us a long
time to do so). If anyone has any other things they can point to as
things that made matters worse for us, please send them my way.
> The really bad thing is that whose in power are not even
> open to discuss this [0]. :-(
In my recent experience, they are (see other mail).
> [0] my suggestions in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/10/msg00430.html were
> unanswered. :-(
Yeah, that's a shame. Perhaps we'll have to bring that up again "soon".
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