Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Niels Thykier wrote:
> * sparc
> - We have seen no improvements. Therefore, out of date
> binaries on sparc will no longer prevent packages from
> migrating to testing and Britney will be allowed to break
> existing packages in testing on sparc.
> - We will review sparc again in about 2 months; should porters
> have stepped up and resolved the concerns we had about sparc
> we will consider undoing this change. Otherwise, we will
> remove sparc from testing as well.
FWIW -- from my pragmatic PoV -- quite a few times the problems with
FTBFS unittests on sparc were legit bugs which were not exercised by
unittests on more popular architectures (who would test all possible
boundary conditions, right? ;-)). That would be pity if sparc
goes away :-/
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