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Re: The time has come (part II) ...



Christian,

Is there a list somewhere of packages that couldn't be autobuilt?  I'd
like to try fixing a few of them if I can.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Christian Meder wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just to bring you the latest news from the Sparc32 port ;-)
> 
> Brian agreed that we will get a freeze on Sparc and therefore we will release 
> sid as Debian 2.1 on sparc. Up to now I took care only to upload packages 
> with sources taken from the frozen dist. So we are pretty much in line 
> with i386.
> 
> There are three issues left which are critical for our (sparc) release:
> 
> which kernel will we use as standard kernel ?
> 
> 2.0.35 is pretty stable for me but it's not completely stable because the 
> virtual consoles die sometimes. 2.1.125 is much better but it has got the
> X logout crash problem.
> 
> we need fresh bootfloppies. Eric will you work on the bootfloppies ?
> 
> Lots of testing. Everybody who wants to see a Debian 2.1 sparc release
> should join in now. Not everything's in place yet but I hope that most of
> the (doable) packages are done by the weekend.
> 
> Happy testing,
> 
> 
> 			Christian
> 
> PS. Remember to check that the packages you upload are compiled with 
> the sources from the frozen dist.
> 
> -- 
> Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
>  
> What's the railroad to me ?
> I never go to see
> Where it ends.
> It fills a few hollows,
> And makes banks for the swallows, 
> It sets the sand a-blowing,
> And the blackberries a-growing.
>                       (Henry David Thoreau)
>  
> 
> 
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