[parisc-linux] Glibc maintainers sought for m68k, hppa

[Aurelien Jarno]

[Cc:ing parisc-linux as interested people are there]

Hi!

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> In the upstream glibc repository, both M68K and HPPA ports have been
> moved into the separate "ports" repository.  This means two things:
> 
>   - The core glibc maintainers will not update them when sweeping
>     changes are made.  This was already the case; they're just making
>     it clearer.
> 
>   - ACLs can be set up to allow a port maintainer to directly modify
>     ports files.
> 
> I'm already covering two other ports, so I refuse to pick up two more
> "orphans".  If you want continuing glibc support for these
> architectures, I think we need to find developers interested in
> maintaining them in the upstream trees.  I can point interested folks
> at some of the recent changes which need to be synched to their ports,
> but I'm not going to continue keeping a list much longer.
> 
> M68k in particular needs some loving.  New versions of glibc will not
> build without TLS support; whether or not you go to full NPTL support
> (which I highly recommend), you need to implement TLS.  It's not too
> hard, really.  And it's long overdue.
> 
> Any takers?
> 

For the HPPA port, guys from parisc-linux are doing very good job for 
both the kernel and the glibc. If I am right some of them (at least 
Carlos) have commit access to the CVS for HPPA.

Having write access to the Debian SVN, having an HPPA machine and 
reading debian-hppa, parisc-linux and libc-ports mailing-lists, I think 
I can work on merging the necessary patches to support HPPA in the 
Debian glibc.

Bye,
Aurelien

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