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2007-05-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ense of what you're trying to say here, particularly in terms of "erosion of our freedoms". I'll reply to what I *think* you're trying to ask, though... As soon as there is something available for m68k that we can usefully build against, I will happily re-add m68k to t

DPL teams review 2008

2008-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
=== Other stuff === That's the list of things I'm hoping to learn more about from this review of teams. Of course, I'm sure there are many other things in Debian that you'd like to ask or tell me about. By all means, talk t

Reviewing data in the debian-cd packages

2008-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
AICS). I have no idea how those files are generated, nor what the licensing situation is for them. Can you help out please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning

Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
iki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Wheezy and I'll be filling in more details there in the next couple of days, including some specific configurations that I'd like to see tested. If you can help us test on Saturday, please take a look and join me in #debian-cd where we'll

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-06-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
t. > >Must have misremembered. It still does - I got this copy via the debian-arm list... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
++---++-- >> armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 >> armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 > >> armel: Wookey (DD), Gatis Visnevskis (!DD), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (DD), Steve >> McIntyre (DD) >> armhf: Jeremiah Foster (!DD, but NM?), W

Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
hat interested people can subscribe to. Maybe "debian-cross-ports" or "debian-architectures" or something. Please feel free to suggest a better name! If such a list were to be set up, we could/should encourage existing architecture porters to sign up there too.

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

2014-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >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 cros

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

2014-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
stions related to setting up a Debian port, > including wanna-build, buildd, etc. That's exactly it, yes. Thanks. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course,

Ports pages need updating on www.d.o

2015-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
her than Jessie. Please take a look. In the webwml source, there's even a file to list maintainers for the various port pages. Until I touched it today, it hadn't been modified since 2005. It's clearly not very useful at the moment! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

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

2015-07-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>Alexander Wirt dixit: >> >>>Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >>>listmaster side?

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

2015-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:38:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

2017-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
I'd expect it to work OK. I've offered before: I don't have the time personally to work on building ports images, but I'm more than happy to help other people getting them building on our official infrastructure... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ce the binary by about 200k. I don't think this is worth >the risk of breaking something as fundemantal as busybox. I'd be more worried about the compiler breakage, to be honest. -Os is meant to work! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ern? If I'm seeing that correctly, >the "-Os" here only saved us around 200k. Does that already make a difference >on armel? Massively so, yes. Lots of the armel platforms that people care about have very limited space for kernel and initramfs. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: another attempt at Y2038

2022-10-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
to keep it around is just for the older binaries AFAICS.) I don't want to be rude, but I really don't see how m68k fits here. Of course, feel free to do a rebootstrap if you like, but I genuinely don't see any great need for it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.