F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 17:49:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 06:33:53PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>> There's a number of people working on this but ultimately like all
>> problems we can handle as much as possible but we also need assistance
>> by the package maintainers themselves.
>
> No, that's not how it works. While you're a secondary architecture you
> get to take responsibility for making stuff work yourself. If a package
> maintainer is willing to volunteer time and effort to making things work
> then that's a bonus, but if they're not then someone who cares about ARM
> has to take responsibility.

That's correct and you'll find that that's what I've been doing for
2.5+ years now, but we're talking about Primary here... and in primary
it's everyone's responsibility...

BTW where's the secondary bit documented?

Peter


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