Purpose

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

It can also be used as a source of information for future recertification pages of PowerPC in Debian.

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. IBM

  2. Genesi

  3. Kuroto Shikou

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. 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:

  1. BastianBlank

  2. ?RogérioBrito

  3. GerfriedFuchs, general issues

  4. RogerLeigh, general issues

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
  3. ?RogérioBrito: 3 machines (one ?OldWorld, one ?NewWorld, and one embedded KuroBox).

Popcon indicates 709 users of the architecture at 2008-08-31.

Installer

The installer is being maintained by ... and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at the debian-powerpc mailing list.

Upstream support

Support for crucial packages is provided by:

Some of the information above was provided by Josh Boyer on the debian-powerpc mailing list.

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:

Nathael Pajani have noticed the following problem in supporting the architecture: