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Purpose

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

Availability

The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via:

1. Sun Microsystems

2. Fujitsu

3. Tatung

4. NextCom

5. Tadpole

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

1. spontini.debian.org - buildd - info - alive

2. lebrun.debian.org - buildd - info - alive

3. sperger.debian.org - general developer-access machine - info - alive

4. schroeder.debian.org - buildd (future) - info - alive

Port maintainers

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

1. Martin Zobel-Helas (Debian Developer)
2. Emanuele Rocca (Debian Developer)
3. Jurij Smakov (Debian Developer)

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

1. foo: xx machines, yy users, personal workstations
2. bar: 1 machine, yyy users, development server
3. ...

Popcon indicates 291 users of the architecture as of 2008/07/13.

Installer

The installer is being maintained by the d-i team and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at:

Upstream support

Upstream support is provided by:

• glibc: Jakub Jelinek, Dave Miller
• gcc/g++: Richard Henderson, Dave Miller, Jakub Jelinek, Eric Botcazou

• kernel: Dave Miller and others, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

• boot loader: Ben Collins
• ...

Archive coverage and Autobuilder support

• The port is currently at 99% up to date according to the buildd stats (97% cut off)

• The port has currently built 98% of the archive according to the buildd stats (95% cut off)

Archive cleanliness

The port builds from unmodified Debian source.

Autobuilders

The following machines run buildds for the port:

• spontini.debian.org -
  • connectivity via ubc.ca,

  • buildd logs checked by MartinZobelHelas,

  • adminned by Luca Filipozzi

  • builds: security, testing-security, testing, stable, oldstable, unstable
• lebrun.debian.org
  • connectivity via carnet.hr

  • buildd logs checked by MartinZobelHelas

  • adminned by ?Joy

  • builds: unstable

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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