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  Therefore, out of date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 :-/

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