Bug#960265: s390x install Debootstrap warning: Failure while configuring base packages. s390-tools depends on perl:any.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:54:37PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Debian does not have a service agreement with IBM for maintaining the
> > Debian kernel on s390x, it is the duty of the s390x porters to maintain
> > the Debian kernel and debug problems in the Debian kernel.
>
> 'duty' as a concept in a social voluntary organization is a
> slippery concept. Many people asserting duties by others are
> really seeking free support, and then disappear like magic.
> That gets tiring, is not sustainable, and long ago at CentOS,
> I set the standard and tone that we don't facilitate such
> behaviour [that has changed with the RHT/IBM purchase, but
> the history stands]
>...
You skipped the relevant part I wrote before that:
> > If there is a problem like for example kernel crashes with the Debian
> > kernel on a Debian machine like a buildd for a release architecture,
> > someone has to debug the problem swiftly.
The Debian System Administrators maintaining the Debian infrastructure
and the Debian Release that are team requiring these kind of commitments
from porters of release architectures, e.g.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2016/08/msg00002.html
The next Debian release will be supported until mid-2024 on all
release architectures.
Back in 2013 the 32bit SPARC port had one active porter,
who resigned from that position 3 days after the release
of Debian 7.0
> -- Russ herrold
cu
Adrian
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