Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> (A) accept the hand-built packages into lenny. When a security update
> for ruby1.9 will be necessary, that update will have to be hand-built on
> hppa, on a machine with a suitable kernel.
> 
> (B) drop ruby1.9 on hppa. That requires NMUing a dozen of packages that
> depend or build-depend on ruby1.9, including rrdtool, to either drop the
> dependancy on ruby1.9 on hppa, or drop it completely on all arches.

Given that there's still ruby1.8 on hppa, this seems like the best
solution.
 
> (C) drop hppa as a release arch. After all, there are no active porter
> except people willing to provide access to systems (which is nice, but
> clearly not enough to keep hppa in a reasonable state), no
> developer-accessible machine admined by DSA, a 2.6.26 SMP kernel that
> doesn't boot, etc.

Helge Deller has recent porting work, i.e. the *context() implementations.
Given that Debian's the only distribution supporting hppa, dropping
it seems not IMHO right, but should be reconsidered if things don't improve
until Squeeze. 

Cheers,
        Moritz