On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > We also got a number of people interested in architectures not currently > in unstable. These are: > > alpha: Bill MacAllister (!DD), Kieron Gillespie (!DD) > arm64: Wookey (DD) > parisc/hppa: Helge Deller (!DD) > ppc64: Steven Gawroriski (!DD) > sparc64: Steven Gawroriski (!DD), Kieron Gillespie (!DD)
We should add official support for ppc64 and maybe sparc64 at least for use as a multiarch extension to ppc/sparc, even if we do not have time to make a full port. Otherwise the introduction of multiarch will likely result in a regression of functionnality on ppc system. Indeed, lib64* packages are superceded by multiarch and often are removed due to file conflict with the multi-arch equivalent. However this leads to a regression for nominally-32bit but 64bit-capable architectures that do not have a 64bit suit to draw from. This is especially an issue for ppc, which has a fast 64bit arithmetic. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130930212206.ga5...@master.debian.org
