Re: sparc qualification for Wheezy
Hi,
> On Wed May 16, 2012 at 13:19:48 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With the sound of the ever approaching freeze ringing loudly in our ears,
>> we're (somewhat belatedly) looking at finalising the list of release
>> architectures for the Wheezy release.
>>
>> Comments on / additions and corrections to the content of
>> http://release.debian.org/wheezy/arch_qualify.html would be appreciated,
>> as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us
>> determine sparc's status for the release.
>
> with my DSA hat on:
>
> We no longer have an UltraSparc II porterbox, and we are considering
> decommissioning our single remaining UltraSparc II buildd machine.
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to officially drop US II support from
> wheezy since we won't have hardware to test issues on.
Might make sense, but on the other hand the USII machines were usually those
where issues did *not* show up. Especially USIII liked to be a problem child as
the specs were never released by sun. It got better with USIV again... So some
state like 'not officially supported, but should just work' is probably the best
for USII.
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