Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:54:30PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 02/25/2016 06:41 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > Packages are auto-removed from testing when they are RC-buggy.
> > Could we do something similar in unstable, for Debian's ports?
>
> We have a testing distribution in debian-ports?
We don't, which is a shame. This badly hinders stuff like porting d-i to a
-ports architecture or making an unofficial release (mostly because of not
knowing when to binNMU and in-archive binNMUs conflicting with yours).
But it appears like Steven meant official release archs. And here, it would
practically mean declaring everything but i386/amd64 unimportant -- I'd say
that while something like half of maintainers are helpful towards porters, a
big part ignores every architecture they don't personally use, and a small
minority is outright hostile. Let's keeps the current system for release
archs -- it doesn't force you to port new stuff but requires a manual action
(filing an arch-specific RM) to allow regressions.
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