Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that alpha meets the [http://release.debian.org/lenny_arch_policy.html architecture re-certification 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:

  1. [http://www.example.com/ some vendor]

  2. [http://www.example.com/ some other vendor]

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. albeniz.debian.org - ?AlphaServer ES45 maintained by TimCutts.

  2. sarah.lri.fr - ?AlphaServer 1200 maintainer by ?ArthurLoiret.

Please send a mail to arthur <dot> loiret <at> u-psud <dot> fr for an account on sarah.

Port maintainers

The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who actively work on architecture specific issues:

  1. ?SteveLangasek

  2. ...
  3. ...
  4. ...
  5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. ente.limmat.ch: 1 machine, 90 users, internet server
  2. fsffrance.org: 1 machine (gcc30), 44 users, GCC devel machine

Popcon indicates 80 users of the architecture as at 2008/05/29.

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:

Archive coverage and Autobuilder support

Archive cleanliness

The port builds from unmodified Debian source.

Autobuilders

The following machines run buildds for the port:

goetz is a quad-CPU 1.25 GHz ES45 with 8 GB RAM.

Vetoes

The security team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

The Debian admin team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

The stable release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

The release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:


CategoryLennyReleaseRecertification