Minutes from the porters meeting

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

Hi,

results from yesterdays meeting.


Andi


- review new hardware we got last year:
  + mipsel looks good; 
  + mips: buildds lack FPU which makes some packages very slow to build
- stretch release criteria
  + mips: minkus.d.o as new porterbox in place
  + mips(el): new builds in place
  + possible issue: 2g address space on mips + mipsel (same to be
    expected for all 32bit-arches, should be discussed+handled the
    same way for all 32bit-arches with consideration of the general
    future of 32bit arches in Debian after stretch)
  + add another 32bit bof during debconf (with arm)?
  + possible to push limit to 3g with changing required cpu set
    (limits amount of devices)
  + updates for the release team: "need newer hw" resolved, "porter
    box" in preperation
- kernel flavours and specific hardware support packages
  + drop (mips): linux-image-4.1.0-1-r4k-ip22,
    linux-image-4.1.0-1-r5k-ip32
  + drop (mips + mipsel): linux-image-4.1.0-1-sb1-bcm91250a
- mips64el
  + current port available: http://mips64el.sparklingly.org/debian/
  + port is ready for inclusion
  + currently syncing with ftp-master for final setup
  + gcc-5 transition doesn't interfere
  + should be added to testing ASAP (non-blocking)
- mips64: currently nobody is pushing it
- wiki + web pages
  + web pages need to be updated
  + send patches to Aurel or Andi