Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

[William ML Leslie]

On 19 June 2016 at 02:25, William ML Leslie
<william.leslie@gmail.com> 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.

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William Leslie

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Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

[William ML Leslie]

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.
On 18/06/2016 2:54 am, "Brock Wittrock"  wrote:

I run all sorts of PowerPC machines with various versions of Debian and I
don't see that coming to end anytime soon.  These are excellent and
reliable machines.  Biggest issues/hurdles are just graphics at the moment
for both ATI/AMD and Nvidia cards, but even if that is never resolved/fixed
or performance dwindles to nothing, I will continue to use these machines
in text/console only mode if I have to.  Please do not drop this
architecture!


Brock

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Riccardo Mottola <
riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dan DeVoto wrote:
>
>> In addition to the debian powerpc mailing list, powerpc users are active
>> on the Ubuntu forums.  I'm running Debian Sid on a Powerbook and everything
>> works except 3D acceleration.  I don't see a need to drop it.
>>
>
> I hope that my iBook G3 will serve me for years to come! Low power
> consumption fanless with a SSD disk make superquiet and quite nice!
>
> Riccardo
>
>