Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
Hi,
Philipp Kern <[email protected]> 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?
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... In that case I don't think we should keep it in the
archive much longer.
There is still interest, but it appears to me that the SPARC target is
falling further and further behind. I further get the impression that
there's a lot of endianness or alignment issues in the bug list that
either should have been booted upstream, or that have already been fixed
upstream without the changes propagating to Debian.
In principle, an argument for keeping SPARC is that it's possibly the
architecture that's most demanding of correct alignment etc. and if the
number of users decrease further this will have an impact on the overall
quality of open-source code.
In practice, it would be interesting to know how sincere Oracle are in
their commitment to Linux on SPARC, and if they're sincere how they
manage to ship something reliable while Debian struggles.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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