Re: All things come to an end

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Thorsten,

sorry to hear that - you have done an outstanding job in getting m68k back on track, 

Good luck with your other projects, and a heartfelt thanks for all the hard workj you've done! 

Cheers,

Michael


Am 08.02.2014 um 12:03 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:

> Hi *,
>
> I’m now doing the step I had wanted to do over a year ago already:
> I’ll take a step back from doing any Debian/m68k work, and leave it
> back to the porters.
>
> My intention, right from the start, was to get things along until
> they could continue, mostly on their own, the rest with help from
> the porters.
>
> I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to concentrate on my core
> projects – to which Debian/m68k never belonged, by several measures
> – for some time now, but I… feel now is the time to do it.
>
> I’ll continue running the ara5 buildd for as long as I can keep
> the domU it runs on, and I’ve been volunteered to hold a talk at
> this year’s VCFe, so this isn’t the last thing you hear from me,
> but officially I’m mostly out now.
>
> Outstanding major things:
>
> • need porting: mozjs (and the old ports for webkitgtk, for libproxy)
>
> • need fixing: ghc, guile 2.0, php 5.5
>
> • gcc-4.8 currently doesn't run autoreconf in several subdirectories,
> causing the -fpic problem to not go away; I’ve got several vague
> ideas but no concrete patch, and I’ve not yet reported this in the
> BTS, only by emailing directly, which I should have avoided
>
> • I never got around doing any work on the bootloaders (most of
> which are moved into unreleased for the sole reason that they
> don’t build a !m68k package)
> ‣ atari-bootstrap
> ‣ atari-fdisk
> ‣ emile (this needs to be redone)
> ‣ m68k-vme-tftplilo
> ‣ m68kboot
> ‣ vmelilo
> ‣ vmelilo-installer
> Note that mac-fdisk is built for powerpc and thus lives in sid
>
> • lots of testsuite failures ;-)
>
> Lots of packages need their fixes be submitted upstream, but
> I did that for all core packages already. Be quick on the GCC
> things, if you do then the maintainer will be nice to work with,
> and we do carry quite a number of patches (so try to get at least
> every second GCC version supported _well_, and try to use the same
> versions for e.g. kernel compiles as the other arches do).
>
> I don’t think I have any outstanding patches etc. that need to be
> made productive, though – everything should be in unreleased (do
> debdiffs) or submitted/backported.
>
> Do not expect the *freewrt.org* stuff to stay around for long.
> I won’t delete the stuff I uploaded to people.d.o though; if there
> is something of mine you miss there, tell me, and I’ll push it there.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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