[Aptitude-devel] About the status and plans for aptitude

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2012/1/14 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
> > Not seriously though, mostly for the same reasons as Christian: I have
> > no idea of C++. And the very little idea I got during my second
> > semester at university (about 15 years ago) is surely gone for good.
> > ;-)
> 
> Hmmm, so C++ is not that sort of think like riding a bike, that you
> never forget even if don't practice it? ;-)

No, that's Perl. ;-)

> Just kidding,

(SCNRE)

> I think that things like these are very important:
> 
> > But I can offer to test aptitude from unstable or experimental in
> > daily heavy duty use (including custom grouping, custom format strings
> > and custom limiting) on several Debian and Debian-Ports architectures:
> > i386, amd64, kfreebsd-i386, powerpc and sparc at least -- armhf,
> > sparc64 and maybe alpha to come. Plus root access to one
> > kfreebsd-amd64 box (asdfasdf actually).
> 
> Testing aptitude in such architectures, which are "arcane" for many of
> us, will be very important.
[...]
> ... and overseeing our work and packaging practices will be very
> usefull as well.

Happy to be able to help.

		Regards, Axel
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