Re: debian unusable on niagara
On 2009-05-04, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> 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).
No one noticing and no one willing to help track issues down on sparc
whenever other debian developers needs it.
(for example, where was the debian sparc porters in 490999)
/Sune
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