Re: who actually cares about debian on hppa?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Grant Grundler
<grundler@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
> BTW, just because parisc isn't in stable doesn't mean it won't be installable.
> It just means the installer will run an older kernel and the kernel will have
> to be updated along wiht lots of other files.
I don't think so. Maybe Frans would be able to give a better input
there, but my understanding of the installer is that such a plan
wouldn't work:
1) if the installer (userland) is broken because nobody cares about
fixing it, that point doesn't stand
2) if the installer is incompatible with older kernels (think glibc
upgrade requirements, like what happened between sarge and etch), same
thing.
3) if we follow your scheme ("updating kernel along with *alot* of
other files), it basically means that *someone* will be *maintaining*
the installer for the hppa platform, which I don't see happening
either (Frans already asked for support here with little success,
afaik)
and all in all, it doesn't change anything to the fact that nobody's
(among Debian Developers handling their own packages) gonna give a
damn about an architecture that doesn't block their packages if they
FTBFS...
Anyway, if we don't have manpower it might also mean that we just
don't have enough users to gather such manpower, in which case hppa is
indeed just a pet architecture for a few of us and doesn't really
deserve that much attention anyway. Sadly enough.
Cheers,
T-Bone
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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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