Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2015-05-21 Thread Rod Schnell
Good afternoon, Being a late comer to SPARC and debian I'd like to put forth my limited abilities and equipment for the purpose of testing and maintenance. I have a couple of SUN Netra240's which can be used for the purpose. To do this I think I'd need some direction and guidance as to where

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:36:31 +0200, Joël BERTRAND wrote: sun4u : kernel is stable until 2.6.32. [...] sun4v : I have several T1000 for a long time. I haven't seen any stable kernel on these servers. Maybe someone could think about a k*bsd-sparc port ;) Linux seems to be

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.orgwrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:36:31 +0200, Joël BERTRAND wrote: sun4u : kernel is stable until 2.6.32. [...] sun4v : I have several T1000 for a long time. I haven't seen any stable kernel on these servers.

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Brad Spengler
Just wanted to represent here as well. I'm still actively supporting grsecurity for sparc64 and have a SunFire V220, and three Blade 2500 workstations here (one being used for parts). Overall, the sparc port has worked very well for me for the past 9 years or so -- thanks to everyone involved.

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Dear FTP masters, now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate of sparc in unstable. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org 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

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Patrick Baggett
I still run Debian on three SPARC machines, so I am definitely interested. Patrick On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.orgwrote: Hi, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate of sparc in

Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, thanks for taking me into Cc. Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org 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? Interested yes, as I do have and run