Re: hppa & squeeze
>> Looking at popcon - ohwell, better don't. HPPA looks bad there.
>> We (well, I, I just assume you too) don't want to end up with a port
>> thats run just for the fun of the porters ( :) ), so - is there real
>> demand out there for a HPPA port?
> Hard to say; everytime this comes up there are a couple people who
> speakup, but we certainly don't get flooded with +1's.
Do they just do the usual "me too, its important" or do they actually
help with the work? :)
>> Also, add another question: Does HPPA stay on ftpmaster at all? How
>> likely is it to get back to a state it can be included into another
>> release? If the answer to that tends to be negative, it might be better
>> to move it totally to debian-ports, in order to not have to support two
>> different archives.
> I suspect negative, if only because the hardware is no longer
> being produced. (We also have buildd stability issues, which have been
> shown to go away on other systems).
Well. We did have m68k for an eternity. Long enough that many people
said the last living machines of them are just buildds. :)
> Also, one thing I just noticed is that ports seems to only have
> unstable/experimental. For some reason I'd assumed "stable" releases
> there were an option, but that does not appear to be the case.
> That implies we'll have a bit more difficult of a time keeping the
> port installable from ports, since we'll need to keep an installer
> available that works w/ sid.
Thats for the debian-port people to answer. *I* wouldnt think a stable
release to be impossible, but its not my corner.
>> Porter machines. They need to be available and maintained. Either by DSA
>> if stuff stays in main archive, or by whoever, if it goes to ports.
>> If we end up with just squeeze-hppa and have no hppa in unstable, a one
>> box should do that, if it stays in unstable too, 2 or 3...
> Yeah, we have paer for that. (It is currently down due to what appears
> to be a failed disk, but that should get resolved this week).
> If this moved to ports, I'm curious what the maintenance tasks are. Is
> there a central admin team and/or infrastructure for ports?
Not that I know, but not my corner again.
Besides that, its the usual admin stuff. Keeping it running/updated...
> Also - does debian-ports allow for non-DDs to do any tasks that DD
> privs are generally required for (signing build logs, uploading
> installer images, etc)? The active hppa porter team is non-DD-heavy,
> and it would be nice to share the load.
*AFAIK* this works on ports. Will not work on ftpmaster. So if you do want
to share the load, move you want.
--
bye, Joerg
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