Re: Preparing for the freeze (was: Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs)
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Well, I think that most people who want to specifically do compiling,
> won't get an Alpha; a similarly priced intel machine is much faster
> at compiling. Unfortunately compiling on Linux/Alpha currently not
> optimal, and I simply cannot see the logic in not releasing Debian/Alpha
> just because the compiler (very) sometimes throws a fit.
I agree. Great point.
> What I hear of people getting an Alpha and putting Linux on it, is
> graphics stuff (e.g. gimp, rendering) and mathematical calculations
> and that sort of thing (which reminds me, there are a _lot_ of math
> packages not yet compiled; that's more important IMHO!).
I'm working on those. Binutils comes first, though :-) As does dpkg and
jade.
> I've been running 2.0.36pre2 for ten days now, compiled with the
> previous egcs version (a new one was uploaded yesterday, right?)
Yes, and expect another today. It should be the final....barring binutils
problems.
> Additionally, those "important" packages are just a couple, and
> compile pretty well AFAIK. It's the dozens if not hunderds of little
> other packages that haven't been ported yet that cause the problems;
> I find myself spending a lot of time debugging debian/rules etc.
> Luckily most maintainers are more than willing to integrate the patches
> I send to the BTS, so that the next time round there are less problems.
Agreed. I have to get better about this again. Mostly, I do NMUs and
forget to send patches upstream. I think I need more sleep since my
memory is failing lately.
C
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