Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 17:22:09 -0400, Robert Reif wrote:

> Jurij Smakov wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Now that we have released, we need to set our goals for the future. As 
> >you probably guessed from the subject, I am strongly in favor of 
> >dropping sparc32 support for lenny. There are multiple reasons for it, 
> >including
> >
> >* Nearly complete lack of upstream support. David Miller, current 
> > upstream maintainer of sparc64 has expressed his thoughts on the 
> > topic in [0], triggering the discussion about dropping sparc32
> > support in Aurora Linux. [1]
> >* Several serious problems, like lack of SMP support and driver 
> > failures (CD-ROMs do not work for some reason).
> >* Shrinking userbase, flaky hardware.
[snip]
> Why can't you have official sparc32 and sparc64 ports?
> 
> That way you can optimize sparc64 and still have sparc32 support.
> 
Did you read what Jurij wrote?

Cheers,
Julien