Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated
Hi,
On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 17:45 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, 17:23 Leo Historias, <leohistoriasanimadas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"?
>
> As far as I understand Adrian does almost all of the debian powerpc maintenance
> (with some help here and there, not from me I'm afraid).
Correct.
> Without him there would be no ppc or ppc64 debian: As far as I'm aware it's mostly
> a one man show (but apologies to anyone else whose efforts I have missed in making
> that statement). He simply doesn't have time to maintain thousands of packages and
> all the other work that goes into the OS AND port a gargantuan browser and all its
> dependencies to powerpc as well, I think is what he is communicating here. And nor
> can anyone reasonably expect him to.
Indeed, it's a huge amount of work and it's sometimes difficult not to lose one's sanity
doing that. It might not look like it, but there is a lot of work involved under the hood
to keep the ports going.
Be it fixing issues with libraries, the toolchain (gcc and binutils) or various other
packages. Plus, the buildds (automated build servers) plus porterboxes (machines that
Debian Developers can use to debug packages) need to be maintained as well.
FWIW, I have quickly compiled a TODO list for Debian Ports here:
- https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-ports-todo.txt
I will update it once new tasks and problems come to my mind.
Adrian
>
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