powerpc arch is in a sad state

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
> The powerpc platform is not officially supported in the archives, but it
> exists as a port and is without a doubt useful for many users.
>
> However, the platform is in a sad state for karmic, almost all builds I have
> submitted as of late have failed, and the FTBFS list is a mile long.  It is
> my firm impression that the powerpc port has deteriorated during the last
> releases.  I do not myself have a powerpc machine to do testbuilding, and so
> debugging becomes a very slow and tedious affair. Perhaps someone with
> access to powerpc platform could be persuaded to do something about it?
>
> With so many packages to fix, it is important to start at the bottom nodes
> of the dependency graph. A web based tool to visualize the ancestors (and
> children) of a particular package, along with their build status would be
> extremely useful. Perhaps we could have a project to create such a tool?
>
> Any thoughts on this?

There was a peculiar problem with buildd chroots which has been
recently fixed (only yesterday I believe). So the build failures
because of the problem in installing texlive-* packages should be
solved now.

May be someone from archive admin team can provide more info on this.


Onkar