On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Niels Thykier wrote: > * sparc > - We have seen no improvements. Therefore, out of date > binaries on sparc will no longer prevent packages from > migrating to testing and Britney will be allowed to break > existing packages in testing on sparc. > - We will review sparc again in about 2 months; should porters > have stepped up and resolved the concerns we had about sparc > we will consider undoing this change. Otherwise, we will > remove sparc from testing as well.
FWIW -- from my pragmatic PoV -- quite a few times the problems with FTBFS unittests on sparc were legit bugs which were not exercised by unittests on more popular architectures (who would test all possible boundary conditions, right? ;-)). That would be pity if sparc goes away :-/ -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140130024948.gu5...@onerussian.com