Don't panic!I believe this is about a program called "xaralx". The clue is in the bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi? bug=382658> This is still referenced in the first member of this thread to appear in debian-powerpc, but has somehow been dropped from followups. The debian-powerpc thread is a continuation of a thread that originated in a list having to do with xalarax.
If I understand correctly, endian problems prevent xalarax from running correctly on PowerPC (and, presumably any other big-endian processor, such as Sparc or S/370). So they are talking abut not building xalarax for PowerPC (and presumably...) at least until somebody gets around to constructing the necessary patches to xalarax to make it endian independent.
OK? You can breath again... (Unless, of course your breathing depends in a crucial way on xalarax <-; )
RickPS: I have no idea what xalarax is or what it does. Sounds like an asthma medicine.
On Apr 14, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Pierre Bauduin wrote:
Hi all, I'm another ppc user, i have an ibook g3 running debian testing. Actually I'm using it to work, so if Debian stop giving support to powerpc-users would be a very bad thing at least for me ;)I'm a powerpc user too, running Debian on an iBook G3 and a Quicksilver G4. I think there are still many people that need Debian on powerpc. Plus there are very powerful machines out there - like a dual G5 or quad G5 - would be sad not to have Debian GNU/ Linux on theses... Don't kill Debian on powerpc - please...