Re: open issues with the hppa port
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> * Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) [091007 14:43]:
>> There are still more issues with hppa popping up than with other
>> architectures, but the general direction looks promising. For this
>> reason, we have decided that we try to avoid the additional burden of
>> packages getting out of sync, and keep hppa in our list of "normal
>> supported architectures" at this time. We are only able to keep it
>> this way if the good work continues, the switch to ntpl happens etc
>> etc - I definitly hope it will work out well.
>
> Summarizing after quite some more time: Things look much better. As
> you all know, there was recently e.g. the kde4libs-issue, and I expect
> similar issues to happen again (as the migration to the new threading
> model was very recently), but hppa is mostly normal again.
>
> We also need to get paer back as "normal" porter box (instead of
> buildd as currently) (this shouldn't be troublesome in any way, just
> needs to happen).
>
> I want to say "Thank you" for that great progress we achieved with
> hppa. Thanks!
Thanks. Please remember to help the porters get visibility into those
issues that are highest priority for debian.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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