Hi, First of all, I would like to apologize for falling out of the loop for almost 4 months. My move and settling-in period took quite a bit longer than I expected. In the meantime there was no further progress on the decision about continued sparc32 support, so I would like to address it as soon as possible. The discussion which took place in April and May did not in any way resolve the fundamental problem of sparc32: lack of people actively interested in maintaining it (please correct me if I'm wrong). Most developers involved with the sparc port didn't object to dropping it. There were a few objections, but I haven't seen any realistic plan for keeping the port afloat. Even though it appears that there were a few bugfixes for it since my departure, there is still no active upstream maintenance, so I don't think we have sufficient reasons to re-enable the sparc32 kernel builds. Without the updated kernels the debian-boot team cannot really keep the installer in sync with other architectures, which means that we have to make a decision. I don't see other option than dropping it at that point, and I would like to make it official. If there are no last-minute objections, I would like to make an official announcement on d-d-a that Debian is dropping support for sparc32 for lenny within the next couple of days. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
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