On 08/14/2018 02:09 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > I don't understand why that is a requirement. The package could just as > well live in debian-ports, like other sparc-specific packages (I assume > e.g. silo lives there). That all sounds backwards to me.
We are actually trying to get rid of these packages which is one reason why we have switched from SILO to GRUB. The second one is that SILO is unmaintained upstream and 32-bit only. Currently we have only sparc-utils which is in "unreleased" and the problem is there that "unreleased" has to be maintained manually and it's not possible to perform source-only uploads. "unreleased" is rather a stopgap solution rather than something you want to use in the longterm. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913