Michael Cree wrote: > And that's a fundamental problem. None of us Alpha porters working on > the Alpha port at Debian-Ports are DDs, nevertheless we have over 95% of > the unstable distribution built, and would like to start work on getting > aboot fixed and updated. > > So what are the possible means of getting around the problem? > > Me providing a login to an Alpha with an up-to-date unstable chroot? > > A sponsored upload of aboot? Does that require at least a DM to prepare > the package?
Could you become a DD? I'm confident in your skills and ethics, for what little that's worth. If that takes a long time, in the meantime would it be possible to get an alpha cross-toolchain packaged so the package can be built on non-alpha machines? I'd be happy to help with that. (See [1] for a starting point.) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/623953#20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
