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Debian May Drop the SPARC Architecture

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 30 2014, @03:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the problems-with-hardware-software-and-people dept.

omoc writes:

Reported by LWN:

As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain and continued stability issues with our machines.

The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this should take place on #745938.

(Cross submitted on pipedot.org)

 
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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:09PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:09PM (#38198) Journal

    Luckily there's still OpenBSD and Gentoo left for old Sparc hardware.

    Which is precisely what it says in TFA. You did read it, of course?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:44PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:44PM (#38208) Journal

    Read what TFA?

    There appear to be links to bug report sites, and discussion boards. There is no TFA.
    Instead we are expected to follow rambling threads on three different boards.

    As an editor, I would have expected you to have insisted on an ACTUAL article and used these various board postings as backup. Instead we get three links to different discussion boards.

    Further, it doesn't seem wise to start browbeating posters for not reading TFA that consists of 140+ comments on a bug reporting bulletin board.

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    • (Score: 2) by omoc on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:32PM

      by omoc (39) on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:32PM (#38227)

      There is no real "article" at this time, the announcement was published on the mailing list/bug tracker. I don't write articles, I just submit stuff that is interesting to me. Sorry for that, but this is just early and raw news/information.