Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages
]] Michael Gilbert
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
[...]
> > The new upstream release did not include any particularly compelling
> > changes for wheezy, which is why I did not update to the newer
> > upstream version.
>
> It may not have include changes interesting to you, but there was
> certainly interest to others in the hurd improvements, and I think we
> should really try to be accommodating to hurd porters as much as
> possible.
«For wheezy» is operative in my statement. hurd is not a wheezy release
architecture, and it's actually not even part of Debian any longer any
more than HPPA or AVR32 is. Making changes for such architectures, when
we're approaching a freeze, is pretty high on my «stuff I'm not going to
spend time on» list.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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