On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > i just had to discover that somehow the arm port isn't > maintained. i got the impression that someone set up an buildd > and etc. pp. so, what is the actual status? i am a bit confused > right now.
The ARM port is very much maintained in spirit; I currently correspond to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and I very much intend, as soon as time permits, to push issues forward. There's a collection of buildds, and a prototypic system to collate them (distribute build logs amongst porters and suchforth); I was under the impression that packages from this are going in from time-to-time -- I'll certainly get to my bunch as soon as I get a second. Apart from the odd package done by generic Debian types, I think Phil's submitting the bulk of the packages as of late. Between some of us, the kernel packaging issues and boot-floppies should be sorted out before too long. (There's also related work going on over at emdebian.org concerned with ARM, which may be of interest.) In a nutshell, hold on a couple of weeks for life to resume its track, and then I hope to (personally at least) put in a bunch of overdue work. > one of the things which also points to a more or less > unmaintained port is that there is no ssh in main/arm :(. There have always been a bunch of issues with ssh, though I don't quite remember what now; I think there's a version up for FTP on ftp.armlinux.org. If not, I'm sure there's one hanging around somewhere. Search the mailing list archives. c.
