Hi David! On 11/18/2015 01:53 AM, David Matthew Mattli wrote: > I'm a programmer and I've been looking for a way to become more involved > with Debian, if you'd be interested in my help.
Great! > This past summer I spent some time investigating failed Debian/sparc > builds. The main issues I found were the now fixed fpu corruption bug, > the gold linker bug, and nettle. The nettle package was changed to > enable "make check" on the builds and this fails on sparc. This was > making nettle block a lot of packages before sparc was removed from > Debian. Yeah! > As far as buildd hardware, some interesting machines are for sale on > ebay for almost nothing. Some, like the t5120, have better single-thread > performance and more threads than the t2000 class hardware. If you have > a place for some noisy 1U servers I'd be happy to buy a machine for > Debian use as a buildd or porterbox. > > Thanks for standing up for Debian/sparc and I hope I can help! If you want to help, have a look at the packages on sparc64 that currently fail to build from source: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=sparc64&suite=sid One package of particular importance which needs to be fixed is libsigsegv: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libsigsegv&arch=sparc64&ver=2.10-4&stamp=1447500379 If you have any idea on how to fix this issue, I would be more than happy to integrate your patch :). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
