Re: 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 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 sparc har

Re: Sparc status ?

2014-04-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:44:16 +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote: > Le 18/04/2014 06:56, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit : > >I'd guess skilled hacker time is more needed than hardware. Reading > >https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html , it seems major > >blocking issues are: "Using gcc-4.

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

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Philipp Kern 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 m

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, we currently have in unstable/main/sparc precisely 35491 packages, of a total of 40634 available packages, that cannot be installed in the current version of unstable: % dose-debcheck --fg Packages --deb-ignore-essential background-packages: 0 foreground-packages: 40634 total-packages: 406

Re: 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 wrote: > Hi, > > Philipp Kern writes: > > now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate > > of sparc in unstable. > > Are there still

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

2014-04-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Philipp Kern 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 impression is th