On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Stuart Prescott wrote: > * end-users -- they aren't using debports ports so they don't want to see > this information
I think this is a bit of a simplification, the recent porter threads show that some end users still use ports that have been demoted to debports, via debports itself or archive.d.o. > If the work-in-progress, dead, being-revived or otherwise progressing well > ports from debports were keeping up with all packages in the archive, > this wouldn't be a problem but then again, if these ports were keeping up, > they could be official ports in any case. Some of the ports criteria preclude even ports that are keeping up from becoming official ports, for example ports to very old (m68k) or very new architectures (arm64) will find it very hard to satisfy the "machines available to buy" criterion. https://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_policy.html > (b) if those working on debports architectures need Debian maintainers to see > information about the status of the packages and would thus be sorry to > see this information disappear from view, then let's clone this bug to > qa.debian.org proposing to include it in the packages.qa.d.o pages where > the developer group is more likely to look for it anyway. packages.qa.d.o doesn't include any information about architectures. The debports buildd interface is where maintainers should go to find out about their package on unofficial ports. The PTS already links to the relevant pages. > It would be nice if this FAQ didn't need to be answered on a ~daily basis > and if packages.d.o could become more useful to end-users. Do you think a clarification like what we have on the pages for non-free and experimental would be helpful there? Perhaps something like "this package is only available on unofficial architectures, has probably been removed from Debian. Please do *not* ask about in Debian support lists, forums or channels". -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
