On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:36:22 Steve Langasek wrote: > If not, I think it's time to look at retiring the alpha port gracefully as > a release architecture. Alpha has had a long, proud run in Debian, but if > alpha/lenny+1 isn't actually going to be useful to anyone, and no one is > really maintaining it (we've been mostly coasting for lenny already on the > porting front), it would be better to drop the port now rather than > continue to take up project resources and become a source of resentment. > > Thoughts? >
I imagine that many of the uses people have listed lately (especially the firewalls) would only require source code and a compiler. So we wouldn't REALLY lose Alpha until the kernel no longer builds on it. That is sadly the condition of my old IBM 6015 PowerPC boxen, which are stuck on 2.4.18. :( Having a complete Lenny would at least let us bootstrap updates we roll ourselves. I'm not a coder, but I think I can work out how to make debs of tolerable quality if someone is absolutely stuck with a firewall w/o compiler or the ability to cross compile and needs help. But that's a while off. Steve, when you say dropping the arch for Lenny+1, what does that imply for Alpha when Lenny is oldstable? Cheers, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
