Hello, On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
[snip freeze policy] > Results of porter roll-call > =========================== > > Summary table: > Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total > - ---------------++-----++---------++-------++------ > armel || 5 || 0 || 2 || 7 > armhf || 6 || 1 || 2 || 9 > hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 || 8 > ia64 || *0* || 0 || 3 || 3 > kfreebsd-amd64 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 6 > kfreebsd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 6 > mips || 2 || 0 || 1 || 3 > mipsel || 2 || 0 || 1 || 3 > powerpc[1] || (1) || 0 || 2 || 2.5? > s390x || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2 > sparc || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 > > [1] The (1) and .5 is from a "I am not primarily a porter > [...]"-remark, so I wasn't sure how to count it. > > Based on the number of porters, we are considering changing the > current requirements of "5 DDs" to better reflect the reality of the > situation. We will follow up in a future bits on the changes. > > That said, we would like to encourage porters behind all ports to > ensure that the toolchain is up to date and working. We are aware of > at least gcc on mips having its test suite disabled[GCC]. Other ports > may suffer from similar issues and we hope to have those resolved > sooner rather than later. We are currently waiting for the gcc > maintainers to compile a list of such issues. So I can extrapolate from this that ensuring that the toolchain is up to date and working is a key activity of a porter. If my assumption is correct, is there a complete definition of the "toolchain" as we see it in Debian that a porter might reasonably be expected to use to do thier porting? In addition, I wonder if there is a way to report the status of the toolchain and what sort of expectations are there around "up to date"? Is it expected to build Debian toolchain nightly and run a specific test suite? Is the expectation that one uses pbuilder and builds a set of packages? Perhaps this is outlined on the wiki somewhere and if not perhaps it ought to be? Regards, Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131019143847.GA9075@sylph
