[sorry 'bout the late reply, had some catching up to do] On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:36:14AM +0000, John Klos wrote: > >>Sorry, but we don't care. m68k has now missed 3 Debian releases > >>running. That's over 6 years! We should not continue pandering to the > >>insane idea that m68k is ever going to release with Debian again. This > >>package has been RC-buggy since approximately forever and should just > >>be dropped from the archive. Providing convenience for the > >>vanishingly-small number of remaining m68k users is not a good enough > >>excuse. > > There has always been and always will be people who are hostile > towards non-mainstream. Luckily for Debian, Steve is in the > minority. All of the other GNU/Linux distros have become commercial > entities which attempt to distringuish themselves from each other > gratuitously, but hopefully that will never happen to Debian. > > Other people in Debian recognize that supporting multiple > architectures is desirable and improves the overall quality of the > project.
True, but his arguments weren't false. If we want to get m68k back into the archive, we should get it into a working state first. In six years, that hasn't happened yet (though we've been close for about a year now; we miss some buildd machines, but I'm trying to get that done during debcamp/debconf) The fact that m68k hasn't been part of Debian for such a long time has also meant that updating emile has basically been impossible. As such, I couldn't fix any bugs in it anymore. It was also the case that emile has had some RC bugs open for a while. That alone is reason enough to kick it out. The fact that it's been kicked out of Debian proper also doesn't need to mean it can't get into debian-ports... -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120703202850.ga32...@grep.be
