Re: current status of alpha in squeeze
Hi Steve,
Sorry for the long time to answer, I'm just back from six weeks
without a real Internet connection. Unfortunately, I'm going to have
limited time to dedicate to Debian for the next months. I should still
be able to sign build logs, do manual rebuilds for FTBFS, and fix some
of them when it's not too tricky. But I won't have time to work on d-i
or the kernel.
On the upstream side, some of the porters seem to be still responsive
(see eglibc 2.10 testsuite regression, for example), and the alpha gcc
port has been adopted, or at least someone takes care of it. ;-)
To be short, I still intend to help for the alpha port, but I don't
think it will be enough for an official release. It would be great if
some other interested people had time to dedicate to the port.
Arthur.
2009/7/30, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>:
> Hi Arthur,
>
> At DebConf, the release team has discussed the state of the various Debian
> ports and their viability for squeeze, and a number of concerns were
> expressed about alpha.
>
> I've added a couple more serious issues to the list on
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
> which will need attention in order for alpha to release with squeeze, and
> I'm also told that upstream support for alpha has continued to atrophy -
> including poor kernel+glibc support, because there is no one taking care of
> the implementations of new syscalls for the kernel.
>
> Buildd statistics at https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-quarter-big.png
> and https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-quarter-big.png are also heading
> the wrong way, and a recent thread on debian-alpha shows that eglibc 2.10
> currently fails its testsuite.
>
> Furthermore, I'm told that some Debian folks have been trying to contact you
> about other matters, but that you may have been unresponsive due to real
> life committments.
>
> Do you still intend to carry the alpha port on your own? At this point, it
> doesn't look like it will be releasable with squeeze. The release team
> assessment is that there need to be signs that this is changing over the
> next month, or else alpha should be dropped from the release planning.
> Could you please let us know whether you will have time to work on this?
>
> Awaiting your reply,
> --
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>
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