Debian/m68k meeting in Kiel

Hello World,

A week ago we, that is, the m68k porters and some other people
interested in the port[1], held a weekend's meeting at the Christian
Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. This was prompted by the fact
that the m68k port has been facing difficult problems in the past few
years, and we wanted an opportunity to discuss our respective ideas
about the port in person. In addition to this discussion, we also seized
upon the opportunity to do some porting work while there.

In light of the fact that the Debian/m68k port is going to be removed
from the archive, we had already been looking for alternatives. One of
the things we'll be doing is to move to debian-ports[2], a separate
archive network that is currently being used for the xBSD ports; we had
already decided upon that before the actual meeting, though.

The most pressing matter we discussed, however, has been what we thought
the best way to go forward was. Contrary to what some people may think,
the end of Debian/m68k on debian.org to us does not mean the end of the
Debian/m68k port as a whole; and while we may be having problems
currently, most of these problems are on their way to bein solved medium
to long term.

The problems that we were facing include:

First, there currently is no working TLS implementation for Linux/m68k.
This is being worked on by codesourcery, however, whose latest
projection predicts this to be ready by the end of the year.

Second, you may remember that a few years ago, Freescale kindly donated