On 11/02/2016 03:13 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Well, I don't remember the exact chronology, but I *did* ask a lot of >> people during DebConf15 to keep it, including you. My request was >> ignored back then as well. > > That's plainly wrong. During Debconf 15, sparc was /already* removed > from ftp-master, so it was not possible to *keep* it. > > What you asked was to create it back on debian-ports, and I explained > you it was probably a better idea to work on the existing sparc64 port > instead of rebootstrapping sparc.
That's why I said, I don't remember the exact chronology. I did not insist that it happened that exact way. What I said is that we removed something people were using. It would have been enough to look at Debian Popcon to see that sparc is something people were/are using. Heck, there are still around 70 counted installations for sparc despite not being updated anymore for months. You shouldn't expect users to be present on various Debian mailing lists and you should not assume no one complaining on any of the lists means that no one cares about a port being removed. What we should look at first are popcon numbers and then we should start surveys or something similar. Anyway, it seems powerpc is safe for the time being. Since at least one the buildds is located in IBM's POWER cloud and since Breno has already offered to support us with additional cloud instances if required we shouldn't have to worry much. I will continue fixing bugs on any ports architecture when I spot them or whenever someone points me to them. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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