Re: Debian 11 ppc64be
Hello!
On 10/26/20 12:34 AM, Karl wrote:
> will there be a Debian 11 release for PPC64be again or is it Sid?
Currently, there are no plans in the near future to make "ppc64" a release architecture
(or any other architecture within Debian Ports) as that would require lots of efforts to
convince the release team that it qualifies.
Technically, ppc64 certainly meets all the necessary criteria mentioned in [1], but the
problem is that the big-endian port has no strong lobby, neither within Debian nor upstream
as the little-endian port is considered the norm and there seems to be hardly any commercial
or community interest in a big-endian Debian release.
So, it's more a political issue than a technical one.
> Because on that site, it’s listed as available: https://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/
This is not an official Debian source and they just mention they made our big-endian images
available. It's not a proof that there is actually a release version of Debian for ppc64.
In the future, we are planning to enable testing and stable releases for Debian Ports for which
we would need our own instance of Britney [2], the software which is responsible for managing
testing migrations among other things.
There were some plans discussed regarding our own Britney instance in #debian-ports on IRC
we were offered help by one of the Britney developers but so far this hasn't been materialized
yet.
The primary problem for Debian Ports is the lack of manpower. Many of the issues we have such
as the lack of cruft on our package archives [3] would have been resolved already if we had
enough manpower. And we would probably also have our own Britney instance already if we had
someone willing to step forward and do the work.
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html
> [2] https://release.debian.org/doc/britney/short-intro-to-migrations.html
> [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html
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