Re: porting Mozart to alpha, arm, hppa, mipsel, s390

2002-04-20 Thread Denys Duchier
You appear to have skimmed over my explanations rather quickly. Your main disagreement seems to concern our refusal to recognize a platform not officially supported. I have explained some of our reasons. > please understand where we are coming from, as porters for Debian we > try to get all the

Re: porting Mozart to alpha, arm, hppa, mipsel, s390

2002-04-20 Thread Randolph Chung
> A little less ignorance and little more tolerance might prove more > helpful to us all. indeed > There is very little that depends on platform recognition. (1) a so, by your own admission, there's no good reason to assume things do not work. of the thousands of packages that we've built on

Re: porting Mozart to alpha, arm, hppa, mipsel, s390

2002-04-20 Thread Denys Duchier
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:17:10PM +0200, Denys Duchier wrote: >> Unfortunately, since noone volunteered to help for arm and hppa, these >> platforms will remain unsupported and I must now remove recognition >> for them from ozplatform. > > You are wron

libdb3 NMUs required

2002-04-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Due to the breakage involved with libdb3's symbol versioning in libdb3-3.2.9-15, libraries compiled against this version are almost useless for building against. For example, http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&stamp=1019317098&ver=0.99.5%2Bcvs.2002.04.17-1&pkg=abiword&arch=arm&act=updpkg shows

Re: porting Mozart to alpha, arm, hppa, mipsel, s390

2002-04-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:17:10PM +0200, Denys Duchier wrote: > Unfortunately, since noone volunteered to help for arm and hppa, these > platforms will remain unsupported and I must now remove recognition > for them from ozplatform. You are wrong to test for platform. It makes everybodys job har

Re: porting Mozart to alpha, arm, hppa, mipsel, s390

2002-04-20 Thread Denys Duchier
Unfortunately, since noone volunteered to help for arm and hppa, these platforms will remain unsupported and I must now remove recognition for them from ozplatform. Cheers, -- Dr. Denys Duchier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forschungsbereich Programmiersysteme(Programming Systems L