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Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host



Le lundi 20 août 2012 à 18:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : 
> I don't think we should expect other developers to spend any large
> amount of time to help with our own pet projects, except in so far as
> they benefit 'our users and the free software community', which I take
> to mean collective interests (i.e. numbers matter).  Right now, most
> package maintainers can provide more benefit to more users by working
> on bugs that affect x86, than by spending that same time investigating
> even the most serious problems on some other architecture.  Of course
> they should not stand in the way of porters and should be ready to
> answer questions and apply reasonable patches.

I say amen to all of that.  Unfortunately, we’re soon reaching the point
where supporting some architectures will be way beyond “reasonable
patches”.

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