Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Breno Leitao:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> On 06/27/2018 05:03 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 
>> List of concerns for architectures
>> ==================================
>>
>> The following is a summary from the current architecture qualification
>> table.
>>
>>  * Concern for ppc64el and s390x: we are dependent on sponsors for
>>    hardware.
>>    (Raised by DSA; carried over from stretch)
>>
>>  * Concern for armel and armhf: only secondary upstream support in GCC
>>    (Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch)
>>
>>  * Concern for mips, mips64el, mipsel and ppc64el: no upstream support
>>    in GCC
>>    (Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch)
> 
> I am not sure if ppc64el should be here. GCC does have a good ppc64el support
> and this is being maintained by some IBM folks.
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit more on this concern for ppc64el?
> 

Hi,

That was a mistake by my part.  Matthias already mentioned that ppc64el
was not a concern and I see I only removed the first but not the second
reference.

Apologies for the confusion.

Thanks,
~Niels