Hi, I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even possible to get them applied ! And as we saw (a lot due to Rick Thomas work) yaboot is currently unmaintained and as been so for a very long time (see http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/yaboot.html ). I am Cc'ing Aurélien Gérôme just in case, but without much hope, and Sven Luther has left for a long time.
The problem is : who could take yaboot over ? There are no DD that I know of in the debian-ppc community and yaboot is quite arch-specific. Furthermore, I am not very familiar with how such a take-over could take place : I've had a look at http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa and I am planning to write to m...@qa.debian.org, but help on gathering information is welcome. I am also wondering if a NMU could be possible. Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active development branch (http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ ) would help a lot our port to stay alive, as many have noted that Debian on PPC looks a bit dead from "outside". Another problem is that a lot of information is lost because this mailing-list is one of the "last" place to get information about Linux on PPC for desktop users but digging in the archives is no always easy. I think we should try to gather information on the wiki : http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC If anyone want to help have a correct PPC port for Squeeze, please join ! Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284638512.3106.27.ca...@nsk
