Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Sun Jan 5 18:09:05 UTC 2014


On 05/01/2014 18:47, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
>> We can help as porters but we can't maintain abandoned codepaths on our own. I
>> think GDM upstream doesn't want to deal with this problem, so perhaps it is better
>> if we accept that GDM is not a portable program anymore, and make it Linux-only.
> 
> Or perhaps write a library that provides systemd APIs GDM requires, implemented
> as wrappers around other stuff.

Who will do this? Do you volunteer?

And afterwards, who will keep it up to date? SystemD doesn't conform to any
standard or specification. The definition of "systemd APIs GDM requires" is
implementation-defined and can change every day, without notice. When this
creates new problems, who will debug them?

-- 
Robert Millan



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