Re: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-19 Thread Breno Leitao
Hello Adrian, Let me share my view as the only DD listed as ppc64el porter. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Is a DM enough, if the only DD gets killed by a car [2] the day after > the release of stretch? The other DM is in the process of becoming a DD[1]. This migh

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Breno Leitao
Steve, On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners of very recent amd64 machines too. ppc64el port would take benefit from it also, since, there were many new kernel features that made linux after 3.16.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Breno Leitao
On 07/05/2016 07:43 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:15:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: Steve, On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners of very recent amd64 machines too. ppc64el port would take

Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-22 Thread Breno Leitao
(etc.) I am DD. I believe the port is ready to have -fPIE/-pie enabled by default. Other distros are using it without major issues. Breno Leitao lei...@debian.org pgpcHOzYQIos8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-22 Thread Breno Leitao
Hello Mattia, On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:51:17PM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00:50PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > > - maintain/provide hardware for automated tests on ci.d.n, > > jenkins.d.n (etc.) > > At jenkins.d.n we don't have any p

Bug#897923: stretch-pu: package tclreadline/2.1.0-15+deb9u1 pre-approval

2018-05-04 Thread Breno Leitao
On Fri, 04 May 2018 23:22:15 +0300 Sergei Golovan wrote: > I would like to upload the tclreadline package to stretch. The package > currently in stable misses a shared library for the ppc64el architecture, > as indicated in [1]. I'm attaching the package diff for review. It's > tested using he pp

Bug#856665: jessie-pu: package commons-daemon/1.0.15-6

2017-03-03 Thread Breno Leitao
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: jessie User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Dear Release team, Package jsvc (commons-daemon) contains a patch enabling ppc64el on version 1.0.15-6 (currently on Jessie), but it does not work. A new patch required to add funct

Bug#856665: jessie-pu: package commons-daemon/1.0.15-6

2017-03-03 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Adam, On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 05:41:51PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2017-03-03 17:29, Breno Leitao wrote: > >Package jsvc (commons-daemon) contains a patch enabling ppc64el on > >version 1.0.15-6 (currently on Jessie), but it does not work. A new > >patch requi

ppc64el and Jessie

2014-04-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, I have been working to enable ppc64el architecture in Debian, and I would like to have it as part of the Jessie release. Currently, the distro build is still missing some important things that we are working at the moment, as sending the patches for the packages. a) We have an archive that

Re: ppc64el and Jessie

2014-04-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Cyril, On 04/30/2014 07:33 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >> That said, I would like to here from you, what should be the next steps to >> have >> this port as part of jessie. > > Getting the port into the official archive (ftpmaster playground) should > be your very first step (as far as I ca

Re: ppc64el and Jessie

2014-05-05 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Bastian, On 05/03/2014 04:29 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:58:25PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> I have been working to enable ppc64el architecture in Debian, and I would >> like to >> have it as part of the Jessie release. > > What about

Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-10 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, I would like to share the ppc64el port's status with you, and check if it is feasible to consider it as an official port for the next Debian release, or, what it may be missing for that. We are eager to work on the missing parts. I would also strengthen that this architecture is a long term s

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-10 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Adam, On 07/10/2014 05:28 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 17:08 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> I would like to share the ppc64el port's status with you, and check if >> it is feasible to consider it as an official port for the next Debian >> r

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-26 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Peter, Thank you for your reply. On 07/24/2014 08:14 PM, peter green wrote: > Note: this is the perspective of a dd who is not directly involved with powerc > though I have come across some of your bug reports, nor am I a member of the > ftp > or release teams. It's probablly mostly right but