> Hence the question: what does release team thinks about presence of such > packages in the archive? Porting them to sparc32 may constitute a > significant effort, not justified, in my opinion, by the benefit provided. > sparc32 is not exactly geared for watching movies, and so far I can recall > only one person on the debian-sparc list mentioning attempts to run xorg > on it (current xorg lacks drivers for cards found on sparc32 boxes, they > have been uploaded only recently and are currently in NEW). So, if sparc > at some point becomes a release candidate, would presence of the packages > only supporting sparc64 would be considered RC?
I agree. SPARC-32 might still have its place as an introduction for people with no experience of Sun machines if that's all they can get hold of, but I can't see anybody in their right mind expecting to run fancy animated graphics on it. Perhaps a stub is in order advising anybody who tries to install certain packages that they have been withdrawn since the platform simply isn't fast enough- can anything like that be done? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]