Portability in dpkg is very important, to be able to support downstreams and people who use it on other systems, or even package it in other (non-GNU/Linux) distributions. But currently porting to many of those is done purely through documentation, so catching build or run-time issues is clearly a reactive process, although it would be nice to switch to a more proactive model.
So it would be very much appreciated if either interested parties could provide access to such systems, or setup some kind of continuous integration system from git. Barring anything else, sending build and test suite success or failure reports from time to time would be also appreciated.
Please get in contact with the mailing list or IRC channel if you can offer resources (or privately to GuillemJover if you'd rather remain anonymous).
The following systems are of particular interest:
System |
Resource |
Sponsor |
non-glibc Linux |
none |
|
Mac OS X |
ssh access |
Justin F. Hallett (on behalf of the Fink Project) |
Solaris |
none |
|
FreeBSD |
ssh access |
Jesse Smith (on behalf of DistroWatch), GCC Compile Farm |
NetBSD |
ssh access, local VM |
|
OpenBSD |
ssh access, local VM |
|
Minix |
local VM |
|
Haiku |
local VM |
|
HP-UX |
none |
|
AIX |
ssh access |