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:
Developer machines
The following machines are available to developers:
spontini.debian.org - buildd - info - alive
lebrun.debian.org - buildd - info - alive
sperger.debian.org - general developer-access machine - info - alive
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:
- Martin Zobel-Helas (Debian Developer)
- Emanuele Rocca (Debian Developer)
- Jurij Smakov (Debian Developer)
Users
The port is being actively used at the following sites:
- foo: xx machines, yy users, personal workstations
- bar: 1 machine, yyy users, development server
- ...
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