Re: Buildds slow/unuseable -> drop that arch
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> Moin Goswin!
> Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Mittwoch, den 01. September 2004:
>
>> It saddens me to see that donations of accounts and free cpu cycles to
>> DDs are no longer appreciated by Debian. Any request to (re)build
>> package must now again go solely to <arch>@buildd.debian.org.
>
> Please don't take it personally, but IMO that also shows that the
> architectures in question are not important enough to be part of a major
> Debian release. Take it as is - if they were popular enough, there would
> be enough DDs willing to offer their own boxes as buildds. But since
> nobody does, and they need to be helped by external volunteers, maybe
> there really only few people using them? Why should they hold up a whole
> release - something that really bothers 99% of other users? Debian is
> not only about ideology, we also have practical reasons. Efforts to keep
> dead architecturs alive are noble, but not very rational from the
> practical point of view.
>
> Regards,
> Eduard.
> --
> For any stupid thing chosen at random, you'll find at least 5 people on
> the Internet who thinks it's a good idea. -- Steve Langasek in debian-devel
I'm sure many alpha, mips, mipsel, arm users will object along with
the m68k "minority".
Sometimes it is a problem of having a buildd capable system, like all
the handheld arm users. Battery powered handhelds realy don't make for
good buildds. There could be a million users out there without one of
them having a desktop arm to offer.
Or another one. Do you know any DD owning a s390?
MfG
Goswin
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