Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 15:48 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/01/2016 02:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > > This isn't the case for PowerPC32 where upstream development is still very > > > active because it's part of the PowerPC kernel which is maintained by > > > IBM. > >

Re: Bug#819711: Fails to build mono when PPC_64K_PAGES is set

2016-10-01 Thread Jo Shields
On 01/10/16 13:50, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I am building also on PowerMac G4 ATM to > double check any possible regression. Let me know. I intend to upload 4.6 next week, which already includes your changes. You might want to try throwing http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian/pool/main

Fails to build mono when PPC_64K_PAGES is set

2016-10-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Control: tags -1 patch Attaching debdiff. Sorry this bug totally fell of my radar. Thanks for resurecting powerpc binaries ! debdiff did not include the updated powerpc symbol file for some reason attaching as file directly. The patch has been tested on partch.d.o where building previously faile

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2016-09-30 at 22:34 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/30/2016 09:04 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > > As for "porter qualification" > > = > > > > We got burned during the Jessie release, where a person answered the > > roll call for sparc and we ke

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 02:28 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:01:55PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: [...] > > I have not heard from the ppc64el porters, but I suspect ppc64 will > > not be a release arch. So you need to take into consideration that for > > powerpc to remain

PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi all, Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. If anyone is able to provide help with any of the following, please do contact me ! 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i. This is no suprise that we have a situation

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:01:55PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> wrote: >> [...] >> > On the other hand, some packages dropped support for PowerPC32 like Mono >> > but this i