Hello, On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > when building 'mkvmlinuz' on ppc64/unstable, I get the following error: > > that is not an official debian arch.
it is true that ppc64 not a release architecture, yes. But it is a valid Debian architecture which is supported by almost all Debian packages. The Debian toolchain with gcc-4.3 and glibc as well as the Debian installer, dpkg and many other Debian packages explicitly support ppc64. Altogether more than 98% of the packages from the etch release support the ppc64 architecture. And work is being done to make this even better for the lenny release. > > The patch adds 'gcc-multilib [ppc64]' to the Build-Depends > > and 'ppc64' to the Architecture line in debian/control. > > this arch seems to have no real benefit and thus isn't considered for > inclusion. thus closing This seems to be a rather harsh reaction to a simple wishlist request from a porter. The ppc64 port is certainly not a mainstream port. But at least some people are using it. The current popcon statistics shows the same number of machines for ppc64 as for kfreebsd-amd64. Also, some people who are running the powerpc port on ppc64 machines are using 64-bit packages from the ppc64 port. On behalf of the ppc64 porters I ask you to revise your decision to plainly reject any requests to support the ppc64 port. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]