squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Dear Alpha fans, In August of last year, I posed the question to the debian-alpha mailing list: should Debian continue to support an alpha port following the release of lenny? http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/08/msg4.html As would be expected when making such a post to the

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Oliver Falk
Steve Langasek wrote: [ ... ] not to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things like the lack of Java support gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for Alpha. So it shouldn't be to hard to get it running on Debian! and the general

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Oliver Falk oli...@linux-kernel.at wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: [ ... ] not to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things like the lack of Java support gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for Alpha.