Re: libbsf-java
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:47:27PM +0000, Robert Lougher wrote:
> Wolfgang Baer <WBaer <at> gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > That is just because of the debian policy which states that a package
> > must be buildable from source on all debian arches. As jamvm is
> > currently not available on all arches the consequence is that if
> > I use jamvm for BUILDING my package on i386 and a user / other developer
> > tries to build it from source on arches without jamvm it will fail and
> > therefore we get a release critical bug for it.
> >
>
> Yes, I understand this. I'd like to apologise to the list for my rant. If the
> proposals to cut the number of supported architectures goes through it'll be
> possible to support everything soon. I believe the list is powerpc, AMD64,
> i386 and IA64 (this one could be difficult, any open access machines?).
The *PROPOSAL* was to only release these four archs in the future. This
doesnt mean the other archs are dead or not supported anymore. We will
need to support them still. So if jamvm gets ported to them too then we
can use jamvm everywhere. When I'm a DD I will have access to all archs
Debian supports and I will help you porting and testing.
Michael
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