On Jun 4, 2015, at 11:07 AM, James Y Knight wrote: > I hope this can help avoid Sparc needing to be deleted from Debian... The official criteria for being in the main archive and being released in a Debian stable release are available here: https://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_policy.html https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_qualify.html I'll add some further thoughts here: There needs to be a team of Debian folk pro-actively looking at build and stability issues, responding to questions from users and DSA and keeping the website/wiki pages and other documentation updated. https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=sparc&suite=sid https://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ https://wiki.debian.org/PortsSparc?action=fullsearch&value=sparc&titlesearch=Titles There needs to be interest in Linux on SPARC upstream in the toolchain community and the Linux community, both on bare metal and otherwise. Something has to be decided about the sparc64 port, is it going to replace the sparc port, co-exist with it or what? https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 It would be great if Oracle or other vendors would support the Debian SPARC port(s) by donating more modern and faster hardware, as other vendors have done for arm64, mips, ppc64el etc. There need to be people or organisations actually interested in using the Debian SPARC ports, otherwise the only point is portability. Right now there is 1 known user of sparc64 and 120 of sparc. http://popcon.debian.org/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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