[cl-debian] Bug#463569: Please re-enable mips and mipsel builds

[Thiemo Seufer]

Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi Thiemo!
> 
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:04 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Starting with SBCL 1.0.9, support for several architectures was
> > disabled due to continuous instability when building the package
> > on the autobuilders.
> 
> IIRC the other major reason was that the SBCL maintainer was Peter
> alone.  Now that SBCL is under team maintenance [1][2] everyone can step
> in and help :-D
> 
> > At least for mips and mipsel I believe I fixed the root cause in
> > upstream version 1.0.10. I continue to maintain the MIPS port
> > upstream and haven't seen the issue re-occur since then.
> 
> Thank you for having fixed that.
> 
> > Please re-enable mips and mipsel in the debian/control file.
> > Note that this can expose said instability once more, as the
> > SBCL version to bootstrap from is older than 1.0.10. If this
> > is the case I'll upload manually built versions.
> 
> Given what I wrote above about team maintenance and if Peter agrees, do
> you want to join the Debian Common Lisp Team [1] and take care of SBCL
> for mips and mipsel?  Obviously, you can help with other things, too.

I can join the team, but I can't promise to spend much time on it.
I care about the Debian MIPS port in general, which means 500% of
my sparetime is already taken. :-)


Thiemo