Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: >On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >>mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] > >That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about >porting, upco

Re: sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 05/09/14 18:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: > yamato:~# apt-cache policy libc6 > libc6: > Installed: 2.19-9 > Candidate: 2.19-9 > Version table: > *** 2.19-9 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I can only find arch:all pa

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about porting, upcoming new ports, or any ports

Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list noise that's probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also clearly meant to be di

sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Aurelien! I just noticed that there seems to be something wrong with packages.debian.org regarding sh4. Many packages are not listed there as available even though they are built and installed. For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc6