[Debian-ports-devel] debian-ports archive moving

[Helge Deller]

On 28.05.2016 18:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Michael!
> 
> On 05/26/2016 11:48 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
>>> Aww, what a pity :(. Having to do the Haskell binNMUs manually is quite
>>> of a burden. Would just be great if that could be sorted out somehow.
>>
>> I have a little awk/bash script that runs dose-debcheck on the haskell
>> source file names on the command line and outputs useful nmu commands
>> for most cases.
> 
> That's actually awesome, thanks for sharing the script.
> 
> In this context, I would like to make a suggestion: How about we all porters
> join forces and help each other with the binNMUs? My suggestion would be to
> give everyone of us porters permission to all architectures, so that we can
> modify this script to do the binNMUs for Haskell on all architectures at the
> same time.
> 
> Currently, GHC has been bootstrapped for these ports architectures:
> 
> - alpha
> - hppa
> - ppc64
> - sparc64
> - x32
> 
> For these architectures, I am currently bootstrapping GHC:
> 
> - m68k (currently building .debs)
> - sh4  (currently building .debs)
> - powerpcspe (needs minor upstream fixes)
> 
> I currently know of the following active porters:
> 
> - David Anglin
> - Helge Deller
> - Michael Cree
> - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> - Hiroyuki Yamamoto
> 
> I would be happy to let anyone of the above do binNMUs for the architectures
> that I maintain. I think if we joined forces, we could improve the state of
> Debian Ports overall since we will be able to assist each other with the
> wanna-build work etc.
> 
> What do you guys think?

Good idea!
I'm for it!

Helge
(hppa port)