Hi Tom! On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 11:15:14AM +0200, Tom Turelinckx wrote: > Now that Stretch has been released as Stable, and Buster has become > Testing, what is the planning for turning sparc64 into a release > architecture rather than a ports architecture?
In order for a ports architecture to become a release architecture, it has to pass the archive qualification requirements. These include enough dedicated maintainers, currently available hardware on the market, good upstream support and so on. You can see the detailed list of criteria when looking at the archive qualification for arm64 [1]. sparc64 meets all of these goals, but we don't have access to any current hardware to be controlled by DSA (Debian System Administrators). In order for sparc64 to become a release architecture, the buildds and porter boxes must be maintained by DSA. Currently, all sparc64 hardware used within Debian is maintained by ports people. We have requested a hardware donation or loan for current sparc64 hardware from Oracle and from my understanding, the request has been granted by management. Thus, DSA is just waiting for Oracle to finalize the process and send out the hardware to be installed at Debian's various hosting locations. Once DSA has their new sparc64 servers and DSA has set up these machines as buildds and porter boxes, we are ready for sparc64 to become a release architecture. Unfortunately, the hardware acquisition process at Oracle takes quite long which is why we are still stuck in Debian Ports. Sorry. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ArchiveQualification/arm64 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
