Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I just saw this mail this morning by accident while browsing the archives, I am not subscribed to debian-devel. > The ftpmaster team would like to clarify which Debian ports should and/or would like to continue to be part of Debian unstable and experimental. I'm not sure what context you

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, it's not always a purely technical decision whether a port > remains a release architecture. It's also often highly political and > somehow also influenced by commercial entities. Please don't make implications like that unl

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/28/18 11:26 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> So, it's not always a purely technical decision whether a port >> remains a release architecture. It's also often highly political and >> somehow also influenced by commercial entiti

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] > Furthermore, several of the ports are in very healthy condition and > even surpass some release architectures. The powerpc and ppc64 ports, > for example, build more packages than any of the mips* ports. I would be very ha