Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-16 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:55:57PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: ... > AFAICT Gentoo supports HPPA too. But I expect they depend heavily on debian. ie installer, compiler, source packages, etc. They have even fewer people working on hppa. cheers, grant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > (A) accept the hand-built packages into lenny. When a security update > > for ruby1.9 will be necessary, that update will have to be hand-built on > > hppa, on a machine with a suitable ke

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-16 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Hi, On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:12:52AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > (C) drop hppa as a release arch. After all, there are no active porter > > except people willing to provide access to systems (which is nice, but > > clearly

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (C) drop hppa as a release arch. After all, there are no active porter > except people willing to provide access to systems (which is nice, but > clearly not enough to keep hppa in a reasonable state), no > developer-accessible machi

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-15 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, >Given that there's still ruby1.8 on hppa, this seems like the best >solution. Ruby1.9 as stable release will be released soon (December). I've asked Ruby upstream manager, Yugui (Yuki Sonoda), she hope to support platforms as Debian do. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2008/10/msg0

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (A) accept the hand-built packages into lenny. When a security update > for ruby1.9 will be necessary, that update will have to be hand-built on > hppa, on a machine with a suitable kernel. > > (B) drop ruby1.9 on hppa. That requires NMUing a dozen of packages that > depen

Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-15 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Dear Security team, Hi all, > ruby1.9 isn't autobuildable on lenny: it triggers a kernel issue, likely > to be caused by hppa's partial NPTL support. The result is a few kernel > backtraces, and sometimes a kernel panic. as far as

status of ruby1.9 on hppa

2008-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Dear Security team, we need your input on the ruby1.9/hppa situation (documented in #478717). Problem: Ruby 1.9 is the current "development" version of Ruby. It is supposed to become the "stable" version in december. It works well on all arches except hppa. ruby1.9 isn't autobuildable on lenny: i