Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that amd64 meets the architecture recertification criteria for etch.
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:
pergolesi.debian.org - maintained by DSA, connectivity via freenet-ag.de.
ravel.hpc2n.umu.se - maintained by Mattias Wadenstein (local admin) and Tollef Fog Heen (remote admin), connectivity by University of Umeå, sweden
Port maintainers
The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who are familiar with arch-specific issues for this port
- Kurt Roeckx
- Frederik Schüler
- Tollef Fog Heen
- Mattias Wadenstein
- Joerg Jaspert
- Wesley J. Landaker -- I guess I'm not an offical port maintainer, but I'm a Debian Developer and my primary machine is an amd64, I build and test all of my packages on amd64 first, then "port" them to i386 to upload to Debian. I also have reported numerous bugs specific to amd64 problems and have tried to help fix them where possible.
- Aaron M. Ucko -- what Wesley said.
Users
The port is being actively used at the following sites:
We have single amd64 install used by ~30 users. --?DamyanIvanov
I can vouch for about 10 amd64 users on machines I maintain. --?WesleyLandaker
Currently I maintain one amd64 machine with 5 users. --?SvenHartge
- At 2005-10-11 we have 155 unique logins (excluding system logins) to the Sarek cluster at HPC2N since 2005-08-25.
- ...
Popcon indicates 3373 users of the architecture as at 2007/02/23.
Installer
The installer is being maintained by Kurt Roeckx and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at: ...
Upstream support
Upstream support is provided by:
- glibc: ...
- gcc: Jan Hubicka
- g++: ...
- kernel: Andi Kleen
- boot loader: ...
- ...
Archive coverage and Autobuilder support
The port is currently at 99.8% up to date according to the buildd stats (95% cut off)
The port has currently built 99% 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:
- nautilus - connectivity via ..., adminned by Frederik Schueler
- excelsior - connectivity via ..., adminned by Kurt Roeckx
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 release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None