Thanx to everyone who has been working hard for the last 3 weeks to reduce arm's embarassing bug-pile. We have made significant progress in that now gnome is installable and we have at least some working java (jikes+samblevm-classpath), and a better handle on remaining problems.
This mail is primarily an excuse to say thank you to everyone who has lent a hand - I was a bit concerned when things got off to a slow start, but it's going well now. And also an opportunity to update everyone with where we are at. Lots of things have been binNMUed to fix assorted breakage, and requeued which has caught up a big kde backlog and got various other things built that had just broken due to missing deps. A couple of things that were just timing out have been fixed too - thanx to elmo for prompt buildd management this week. As a result we are back up to 97% built, which is still last apart from m68k, but definately looking better than it was. http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png http://wiki.debian.org/ArmBuilddWatch remains the definitive place for current status info, bugs, links and issues and has been assiduously updated recently particularly by me, Aurelian Jarno, Paul Brook, Sune Vuorela and Riku Voipio (47 revisions this month - thanx to all). Most co-ordination is taking place on #debian-arm IRC channel on OFTC. Java remains a problem, accounting for many of the remaining dep-wait packages. Various people have loked at the gij-4.1 problem and run away screaming but it does still need fixing. I'm not quite sure what the current state of this is. Has anyone had any inspriation or made any progress on this in the last 3 weeks? I know I don't know how to fix it beyond hassling people cleverer than me :-) Anyone who sorts it out will be worshipped as a genius (pb, I'm looking at you :-) Or for a slightly easier approach angle try kaffe instead. There are now only 3 uninstallable packages: blitz++ 1:0.9-1 blitz++ (arm) uninstallable pysvn 1.4.2+dfsg-0.1 python-svn (arm) uninstallable quodlibet 0.23.1-1 quodlibet-ext (arm) uninstallable Please take a look and see what is needed to fix them. And there are plenty of other packages which have bugs filed but still actually need fixing: there are 11 listed on the above page, and no doubt more that can be determined by looking at packages listed as maybe-failed on http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=arm Of course almost all of the above has been concerned with building things. I suspect there is huge room for checking things actually _work_ on arm as well, if that sounds more like your area of expertise than arguing with autoconf, gcc and buildds :-) As has been mentioned in other mail there is a new fast open-access machine donated by bill gatliff (it's great!). Until it gets officially adopted contact me or bill for an account. So, that's a reasonable summary of current status. Thanx again to all, and let's see how much more we can get fixed in time for release. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
