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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: 1) by petecox on Thursday May 01 2014, @04:22AM

    by petecox (3228) on Thursday May 01 2014, @04:22AM (#38355)

    Would petitioning Oracle with a support contract work? According to wikipedia, they have 11,000 subscribers attached to Oracle Linux.

    Employ a couple of SPARC experts to extend the program to Sun/Oracle hardware and by extension fix debian builds...

    How many active debian-SPARC users actually exist and what financial contribution from each would see this become a reality?