Re: 2.3.2-1

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 12 May 2003 20:19:46 -0700,
Randolph Chung wrote:
> > I don't know what a good answer is.  How much do we compensate for
> > porters who don't take care of their toolchain? 
> 
> One of the great things about the Debian release policy IMO is that we
> do a good job at really supporting the dozen or so architectures we 
> claim to support. We do not compromise and say that it's ok to release 
> something that only works on i386, when another architecture is 
> lagging behind. If you upload glibc-2.3.2 to sarge, all that will do 
> is cause a large number of bugs to be filed against various packages 
> because they will not build on mips, hppa, etc... how does that help 
> anyone or anything?

A lot of people use ix86.  It's majority.  It may be radical
statement, but I think ix86 user's priority is higher than minor
architecture breakage.  Many users don't know except for ix86 :-)

> For the most part, the porters are working very hard at keeping things
> in sync (look at the stats on buildd.d.o ....). I can't think of a
> single architecture where the porters are neglecting their port. That
> said, some architectures do need more help than others because of lack
> of upstream support, etc.... if anyone would like to help do the NPTL
> work for hppa, please contact me. There have been various discussions
> about this between Carlos and myself, but it's not something that will
> happen in a few weeks' time.

BTW, what is the status for hppa?  If it's not so much, I would like
to help you, AFAIC.

Regards,
-- gotom