Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable
Hi,
thanks for taking me into Cc.
Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> writes:
> > now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate
> > of sparc in unstable.
>
> Are there still people interested in the current sparc port?
Interested yes, as I do have and run sparc hardware.
> I don't remember seeing any replies to the release team's concers
> regarding sparc, so my first impression is that people are no longer
> working on it...
I was the only one who really showed interested last year, but I must
admit, I haven't found much time for e.g. reading debian-sparc@ldo.
I already mentioned it back then: While I can test stuff and report
bugs as I notice them, I can neither fix compiler nor kernel issues.
And we do have quite some of them on sparc in the meanwhile. (Less on
sparc than sparc64 though.)
I hurts to say this since it's the architecture I grew up with on
Unix, but that defacto means that there's no one who _can_ and will
care about tool chain and kernel issues for sparc unless some further
people have stepped up. (Which doesn't seem the case as I read from
Philipp's and Ansgar's mails.)
> In that case I don't think we should keep it in the archive much
> longer.
I'd really appreciate if sparc would be kept in the archive, but I
fear that's not realistic. So I think the best is probably to move it
to Debian Ports. :-(
Regards, Axel
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