Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that m68k 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:

  1. http://www.bvm.co.uk/

  2. http://www.czuba-tech.com/CT60/english/welcome.htm

  3. http://www.q40.de/

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. crest.debian.org - maintained by DSA, hosted at NMMN

  2. kullervo.debian.org - maintained by DSA, hosted at NMMN, account on request.

  3. hades.nemesisnetworks.com - maintained by Michael Casadevall, hosted at Rochester Institue of Technology, account on request

Port maintainers

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

  1. Stephen R. Marenka < smarenka@debian.org >

  2. Christian T. Steigies < cts@debian.org >

  3. Michael A. Casadevall < mcasadevall@buildd.net >

  4. ...
  5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. http://www.buildd.net/cgi/archvote.phtml lists >120 users

  2. regarding to http://lists.debian.org/stats/: 210 subscribers in 2007-11

  3. http://nemesisnetworks.com - hosts three m68k boxes.

Popcon indicates 10 installation actively submitting data about the architecture use as at 2008/02/27 and 9 as of 2009/02/12 (the graph checked the same day showed the end of 2008 had 11 submitting machines).

Installer

The installer is being maintained by Stephen R. Marenka < smarenka@debian.org > and Wouter Verhelst < wouter@grep.be > 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:

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: