Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread William ML Leslie
On 19 June 2016 at 02:25, William ML Leslie wrote: > > In case it isn't clear, the number of users of the architecture is not part > of the qualification, it is the amount of maintenance pressure involved. > Package maintainers have to put more effort into ensuring builds succeed for > release

init

2016-06-19 Thread Jon Boden
Hi What are your plans for the future of init on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD? Are you going to continue with sysvinit for the time being? For the upcoming release of ubuntuBSD I'm thinking about using BusyBox + OpenRC (https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/03/using-busybox-with-openrc). Do you think this is

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
> In other words, i don't think a s390x box will ever just die. I'm sure “death” encompasses all events which might lead Debian to lose access to relevant hardware. It's not just about faults with a piece of equipment.

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lennart Sorensen: > There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems > being built today. They are not going away anytime soon. Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?