Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

* Robert Millan (rmh@debian.org) [140214 00:11]:
> On 12/02/2014 20:06, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > As I see it, there are two concrete problems with the (number of)
> > supported packages. First, the number of packages actually built on
> > kFreeBSD is just shy of 90%, whereas most other release architectures
> > are at 96%[1].  Here kFreeBSD has increased in the past quarter from
> > ~89.5% to "almost, but not quite 90%".
> 
> The release architecture criteria [1] says the target is 98% but
> hardware-specific packages are excluded. Does this apply to kernel
> ports by simply replacing "hardware-specific" with "kernel-specific"?
> 
> [1] https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_policy.html


At the time where we wrote that criteria there wasn't a difference -
basically "packages which don't make a sense don't need to be ported"
was the main thought.


Andi