On su, 2011-04-10 at 20:06 +0200, Witold Baryluk wrote: > I today say that alpha disappered from unstable buildd.
I am a mostly dis-interested outsider for both the alpha and hppa architectures. I write this to be supportive of the ftpmasters. It seems to me that the alpha porters have had quite a lot of time to bring the architecture up to the level of quality that is expected from Debian ports in the main archive. alpha was dropped from being a squeeze release architecture in October, 2009.[0] That's 17 months ago. The problem of lack of porter manpower have affected alpha for much longer than that, of course. Having a couple of new people promise to do better is not enough, in my opinion: the best of intentions and the most heroic efforts of a very small number of people is not enough, there needs to be enough people involved to keep it as a viable port. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2009/10/msg00003.html Moving alpha out from the main archive does not need to be the end of Debian on alpha, I'm sure. And if the port can show a sustained effort for a sufficiently long time, I'm equally sure the project will happily welcome it back into the main archive for the wheezy release. But that sustained effort should come first, in my humble opinion. (Although, now that I think about it, it's probably hard for alpha to be considered a viable architecture, unless there is new hardware being produced and sold.) -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1302462271.2441.124.ca...@havelock.liw.fi