sparc64 port

[Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org>]

Hi,

With squeeze released and multiarch coming up soon, we're revisiting
architectures again.  Looking at debian-ports.org, (
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/graph-week-big.png ) sparc64 seems
to have around 87.5%-90% of the archive built which is a good start.

Is the consensus that a whole new sparc64 port should be bootstrapped.
I saw some discussion about moving the existing port from 32 to 64 bit,
in which case this discussion might be irrelevant.  If you let ftpteam
know what you want to do, we'll make arrangements if necessary.

I've included the usual procedure here, although it might be slightly
modified for sparc64 given sparc is already in the archive:

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To get the port into unstable/experimental (and obviously aiming for a
release, but that's up to the release team), you need to co-ordinate
between DSA (for buildd hardware and hosting), the buildd team (for
integration into the main buildd network) the release team and the
security team.  If all of those teams are happy with the port being
included, wearing my ftpmaster hat, I'll be pleased to start the archive
bootstrapping process with you.

Details of the bootstrapping process can be found at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00009.html
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Thanks,

Mark


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