On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:54:30PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/25/2016 06:41 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > Packages are auto-removed from testing when they are RC-buggy. > > Could we do something similar in unstable, for Debian's ports? > > We have a testing distribution in debian-ports?
We don't, which is a shame. This badly hinders stuff like porting d-i to a -ports architecture or making an unofficial release (mostly because of not knowing when to binNMU and in-archive binNMUs conflicting with yours). But it appears like Steven meant official release archs. And here, it would practically mean declaring everything but i386/amd64 unimportant -- I'd say that while something like half of maintainers are helpful towards porters, a big part ignores every architecture they don't personally use, and a small minority is outright hostile. Let's keeps the current system for release archs -- it doesn't force you to port new stuff but requires a manual action (filing an arch-specific RM) to allow regressions. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
