Re: debian unusable on niagara
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:12:38 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:40:26AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the main issue is that nobody's actively working
> > on the debian sparc port in the first place. And without active
> > maintainers, that port is actually a disservice to users and the sparc
> > linux community.
>
> Even if nobody is currently volunteering to explicitly state that they are
> working on the port as a whole (which has always been a fairly vague concept
> anyway), the software is generally working fine (yes, even if it has bugs),
> the buildds are happily churning (and are actually actively maintained),
> new users do actually regularly come through, so I fail to see how it's
> a disservice to everyone.
>
And yet sid's kernel has been broken for some time without anyone
noticing. And yet nobody replies when a package maintainer needs a
patch tested and asks on the port mailing list (which means X is broken
in lenny right now).
> What is that statement supposed to mean, anyway? Would you prefer if
> the port didn't exist at all?
>
Than continue to exist without anyone volunteering to maintain it? Yes.
But hey, you can still change that...
Cheers,
Julien
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