Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

[Florian Weimer]

* Lennart Sorensen:

> There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems
> being built today.  They are not going away anytime soon.

Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

[Florian Weimer]

> In other words, i don't think a s390x box will ever just die.

I'm sure “death” encompasses all events which might lead Debian to
lose access to relevant hardware.  It's not just about faults with a
piece of equipment.

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

[William ML Leslie]

On 19 June 2016 at 02:25, William ML Leslie
 wrote:
>
> In case it isn't clear, the number of users of the architecture is not part 
> of the qualification, it is the amount of maintenance pressure involved. 
> Package maintainers have to put more effort into ensuring builds succeed for 
> release architectures, which detracts from other work that needs to be done. 
> Not being a release architecture is perfectly fine.
>
> And just to bring the topic full circle now, ppc is a release architecture, 
> nobody is suggesting its removal afaict.


Whoops, I just realised that Hector *did* ask if powerpc had active
users.  Sorry for the misguided response to what seemed like off-topic
chatter.

-- 
William Leslie

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