Re: attention to bug 321435
On Sep 30, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435. This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390 port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug. This bug is blocking a number of packages, at the very least, ifhp and scummvm. Something needs to happen... I'm not sure what. I wrote to Gerhard Tonn indicating my willingness to be a maintainer of last resort if no one more suitable for the s390 port stepped forward, but I did not receive a reply and I do not know whether someone else has been found. It's not clear to me that the buildd maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per week it takes. I guess that the thing to do is to build gs-gpl with debugging turned on, as well as scummvm, and try to find out in what function things are rupturing. I'm going to hazard a guess that it's an assumption about signed/unsigned characters, but that's purely a guess based on what my gut feeling for most of the portability bugs I've seen on s390 are about. I myself am not likely to have time to do this before the middle of next week. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Future of the s390 port
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: I think a bigger question is where do you find hardware where you can get remote root on; I'm not very familiar with s390 or mainframes in general, but its not a piece of hardware one individual person would own. I'm aware of the Hercules emulator, but that doesn't seem like it would be useful for general development of a port. The Debian project has access to a couple of machines hosted by OSDL, or at least it used to (I haven't actually checked the status recently). These are older machines (z800?) but still 64-bit. The death of Flex-ES and the lack of a P/390, Integrated Server, or even H50/H70 equivalent for zSeries has left a hole in the market for lower-end developers (not just in the Debian or even Linux space). Hercules is actually pretty useful except in that it doesn't emulate a lot of modern peripheral hardware, particularly the QDIO OSA interfaces and the Fibre Channel interfaces which are a fact of life on modern z boxes. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Future of the s390 port
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the Debian-Installer part and I simply have not enough time to do the rest. The s390 architecture is quite different to anything else, so it needs several specialized packages to work[1] and they need lasting attention. So if anyone wants to help (especially Debian developers) for the continuity of this port please speak up. I'd like to help; my time has become much more limited than during previous release cycles, though, and my access to modern zSeries hardware has also become more limited. I can test installation, but on nothing anywhere near a full complement of device types, and I can make recommendations and amendments to a fair number of the sysconfig shell scripts and the shell scripts in the d-i packages. And given the pressures of my day job I can't really guarantee that I will be able to respond to any specific item in a timely fashion. I wish I could do more. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Future of the s390 port
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Martin Grimm wrote: I'm aware of popcon and as much as I'd appreciate it to see our systems counted there this will not happen because these are mainly production systems behind firewalls or in internal networks with no internet access and I've generally a bad feeling when thinking of software that's talking to outside systems when there is sensitive data on my server ;-) I'm running about 20 Debian guests on z, but like Martin's, mine cannot actually get to the outside world directly, and that is not going to change. Apt-proxy is a wonderful thing, though. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
