On 05-Mar-20 14:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Yes, I'll take care of this. I'll prefer to wait a bit to see if > something better arises. But this time, it'd be better not to > hinder ppc64 porters too long. > > Andreas, what's the status of the ppc64 port?
The Debian ppc64 port has an archive on alioth which follows the Debian unstable distribution. The buildd which takes care of building all new package versions is a PowerMac G5, which itself runs the ppc64 port. Currently about 87% of the packages from the Debian unstable distribution are available in the ppc64 archive on alioth. The ppc64 has its own kernel. However, an installer is still missing. The only way to install it is to 'debootstrap' it by hand. Also, the ppc64 archive on alioth uses some patches (like the emacs21 patch) which have been filed to the BTS but which are waiting to be applied by the respective maintainers. There is no urgent need for those patches to be applied immediately. The ppc64 port can live with the current situation. Of course the sarge release should have priority. After that, it would certainly be nice if these patches (or different ones solving the problem) could be applied. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
