Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

[Craig Prescott <cpp@ekkaia.net>]

Michael Cree wrote:
> On 24/03/11 20:17, Robert Garron wrote:
> > I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze >
> [snip]
> > ; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are willing also
>
> I'm prepared to pitch in and help.  I am not a Debian Developer, but I 
> have over the last two or three years stepped up to provide Alpha 
> architecture support to the kernel (which is in better shape now than 
> when Squeeze was frozen) and helped to get the Xserver running again on 
> BWX capable Alphas.
>
> I would be keen to see another Debian Alpha release so count me in.  I 
> see also that Witold Baryluk in another very recent message has also 
> offered substantial support.
>
> > Is it too late to organize a group and to have them work together to put
> > alpha back on to the release list?
>
> Maybe not, but it may need quick action.  The FTP maintainers have just 
> reported that the Alpha port is to now to be completely removed from 
> Debian.
>
> Have Arthur or Craig provided any feedback?

Sorry for the slow reply to this thread.  I'm certainly willing to help 
with this effort, as well!

For squeeze, the Alpha port looked in pretty decent shape, imo.  I set 
up a buildd and kept it building squeeze while it was in testing.  I 
dist-upgraded a few of my own machines along the way, and it seemed 
fine.  I never produced any media or installer images, though.  I shut 
off the buildd just prior to the official release of squeeze.  I really 
meant to get around to reconfiguring it to track squeeze updates in 
stable, but I haven't got around to it.  I can see about making my own 
apt repo available if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
Craig