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

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

Wiadomość napisana przez Robert Millan w dniu 5 sty 2014, o godz. 19:09:
> 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?

I don't have any immediate plans to do it, no.  But never say never :-)

> 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?


As you noticed, the alternative would be to either maintain stuff
no longer used in Linux, or port systemd, which would probably stay specific
to Debian/kFreeBSD.  A set of wrappers might be simpler.

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