Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that powerpc meets the architecture recertification criteria for lenny.
If some of these requirements are irrelevant or implausible for the port, please add a waiver request indicating why and how this isn't a problem for the arch in bold.
Availability
The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via:
Developer machines
The following machines are available to developers:
bruckner.debian.org - maintained by DSA, connectivity via freenet.de.
Port maintainers
The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who actively work on architecture specific issues:
GerfriedFuchs, general issues
RogerLeigh, general issues
Users
The port is being actively used at the following sites:
- foo: xx machines, yy users, personal workstations
- bar: 1 machine, yyy users, development server
Rick Thomas: about a dozen old Macs (some OldWorld, Some NewWorld) used as servers and personal workstations. University and home-hobbyist environment. A variety of models available for testing. n. ...
- Nathael Pajani: Used on any new powerpc board from ACTIS computers for kernel development and testing, and then used by some of their customers (I hope so) as I give them a basic debian rootfs.
Popcon indicates 615 users of the architecture as at 2007-08-02.
Installer
The installer is being maintained by ... and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at: ...
Upstream support
Upstream support is provided by:
- glibc: ...
- gcc: ...
- g++: ...
- kernel: ...
- boot loader: ...
- ...
Archive coverage and Autobuilder support
The port is currently more than 98% up to date according to the buildd stats (95% cut off)
The port has currently built more than 97% of the archive according to the buildd stats (90% cut off)
Archive cleanliness
The port builds from unmodified Debian source.
Autobuilders
The following machines run buildds for the port:
- unstable/testing/stable/oldstable
Vetoes
The security team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
The Debian admin team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
The stable release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
The release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
I (Nathael Pajani) have notted the following problem in supporting the architecture:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495120 which prevents apt (and certainly other binaries) from running on e500 cores. This is bad on a debian system.