Well, just because I'm not very knowledgeable about GNU/Linux and the Debian project makes my E-mail seem like I was trolling?

To this day, I've still been teaching myself Linux for a couple years and I'm still distro hopping. Give someone a break. Anyway, I didn't mean to derail because I know this is about the lack of MIPS maintainers, but I don't know if anyone from Qi really wants do do anything about it.


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:56 PM, kyak <bas@bmail.ru> wrote:
I'm really suprised that this e-mail recevied such versatile answers, considering that every sentence of that message is a mixture of negativity and incompetence or just trolling.


On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, R Paxton wrote:

Is this really true?
Debian has been nothing but problems for me over time. APT is so complex
that I can't even set my own compiler flags for my software like CCFLAGS and
USE flags (for Gentoo) unless I use something like my own local repo with
deb package source files. I might just have to consider switching all of my
systems to Gentoo/FreeBSD if Debian still cannot get their policies and
issues straightened out.

They've even removed Virtualbox from the free repo because it's compiled
with a proprietary compiler. And Wine nowadays does not even work right for
me under Debian. How dumb is that? Because of changes like these that the
Debian folks make, it makes the entire system more and more unstable every
time.

I'm not saying anyone should stay away from Debian if they drop MIPS, but at
least try the Portage and Ports system too in Gentoo and FreeBSD before
deciding that Debian has "simply the best package manager". Certainly,
Debian does not have some of the best maintainers.


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> wrote:
      On Friday 4. October 2013 06.01.41 Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote:
      >
      > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:17:26AM +0200, David Kuehling
      wrote:
      > >
> > just to let you know that given the very limited amount of people
who
> > seem to be available for MIPS-related porting and fixing, Debian
may not
> > include architecture MIPS as an official release architecture for
Debian
> > Jessie:
>
> What is exactly people available for MIPS-related porting?

Yes, some specifics would be good about what the issues are (without
having to
read the whole thread). The summary table is amusing: hurd-i386 comes
out
ahead; perhaps we should get hurd-mipsel running on the Ben. ;-)

I've done Debian packaging but haven't managed to graduate to DD
status, but
I'd probably lend my effort to helping out if the alternative was no
more
Debian on MIPS and thus no more Debian on devices like the Ben.

Paul

P.S. I'm only half-joking about the Hurd on the Ben. With the complete
driver
support for Linux, I wonder if it would be feasible to fully support
the Hurd
on the Ben as well.

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