Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that hppa meets the architecture recertification criteria for lenny.

Availability

The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via: Hewlett-Packard or really cheap from ebay.

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

1. paer.debian.org - maintained by ..., connectivity via HP.

2. Grant Grundler & Thibaut Varene both maintain clusters of HP-PA machines for developer use, see parisc-linux.org for access.

3. Domenico Andreoli's Visualize J5600 is available on request

Port maintainers

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

1. ?ThibautVarene

2. CarlosODonell (carlos@systemhalted.org)

3. ?HelgeDeller

4. Domenico Andreoli
5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

1. systemhalted.org: 2 machines, 3 users, development server
2. deller.homelinux.net: 4 machine, 1 users, development servers (internal)
3. ...

Popcon indicates 63 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:

• glibc: Carlos O'Donell (carlos@systemhalted.org)

• gcc/g++: John David Anglin

• kernel: Kyle ?McMartin, ?HelgeDeller

• boot loader: Paul Bame, LaMont Jones, Kyle ?McMartin, ?HelgeDeller

• ...

Archive coverage and Autobuilder support

• The port is currently at xx% up to date according to the buildd stats (95% cut off)

• The port has currently built xx% 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:

• oldstable (oldstable-proposed-updates, oldstable-security)
  • foo.debian.org - connectivity via ..., buildd logs checked by ..., adminned by ...
• stable (proposed-updates, stable-security)
  • foo.debian.org - connectivity via ..., buildd logs checked by ..., adminned by ...
• testing (testing-proposed-updates, testing-security)
  • foo.debian.org - connectivity via ..., buildd logs checked by ..., adminned by ...
• unstable
  • foo.debian.org - connectivity via ..., buildd logs checked by ..., adminned by ...

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

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