Hi, On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 07:15 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Mono is *not* ready to migrate. Someone will have to provide some > justification to the ftp-masters to explain why the mono-mint package is > still built on s390 when it's been dropped on all other architectures (and > with it, support for all architectures except for i386 and powerpc). this is by design and was explained long time ago in the removal bug reports (like #283381 shows). > > I don't see any sane reason for doing this, so I can't argue the case to > the ftp-masters on the maintainers' behalf. Frankly, if mono-mint is useful > at all, I don't see any reason not to ship it for the "unsupported" archs; > and if it's not useful on those archs, I don't see any reason to ship it on > s390 as a "fallback", either. Either of these choices would have made it > trivial to get mono into sarge. trivial? mono is non-trivial neither debian's removal handling is... > The maintainers instead chose the > non-trivial (even pathological) approach, and have AFAICT not provided much > support to the ftp-masters for resolving this situation. we gave 2 times an explanation why we want to do this and jvw provided a summary and added the confirmed tag, means: everything _is_ clear. Anyhow I write this email mostly because the plan is changing, Mono will _not_ enter sarge. Full details about the new plan and why it will not enter sarge please read here: http://wiki.debian.net/?MonoDebianPlan -- Regards, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key: http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEEF946C8 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d s-:+ a-- C++ UL++++$ P L++$>+++$ E- W+++$ N o? K- w++>! O---- M- V? PS PE+ Y- PGP++ t 5+ X++ R tv+ b+ DI? D+ G>++ e h! r->++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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