Debian has not dropped alpha - was: Re: [PATCH] hwclock: stop supporting alpha cpu architecture

Debian has not dropped alpha - was: Re: [PATCH] hwclock: stop supporting alpha cpu architecture

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

I was just pointed towards this mail and wanted to give a quick
heads up! The original claim in the first mail is not accurate.

While Debian has stopped supporting alpha **officially**, we are
still supporting alpha in Debian Ports. In fact, Debian has more
stable and working ports than Gentoo with many of them team-maintained
by the Debian Ports team.

For an overview of the currently supported targets, see:

> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=base-files&suite=sid

All architectures build the vast majority of packages without problems
and alpha is actually one of the healhiest ports with over 90% of
all packages being built:

> https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-ports-big.png

Please do not drop support for alpha in util-linux.

To get in touch with us, we're hanging around in #debian-ports on OFTC.

Adrian

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Re: Debian has not dropped alpha - was: Re: [PATCH] hwclock: stop supporting alpha cpu architecture

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 07/28/2018 01:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> All architectures build the vast majority of packages without problems
> and alpha is actually one of the healhiest ports with over 90% of
> all packages being built:

As a follow-up: If anyone needs access to a porterbox (i.e. a machine for
a given target architecture), we can help with that, too.

Adrian

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Re: Debian has not dropped alpha - was: Re: [PATCH] hwclock: stop supporting alpha cpu architecture

[Karel Zak]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 01:01:45PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I was just pointed towards this mail and wanted to give a quick
> heads up! The original claim in the first mail is not accurate.
> 
> While Debian has stopped supporting alpha **officially**, we are
> still supporting alpha in Debian Ports. In fact, Debian has more
> stable and working ports than Gentoo with many of them team-maintained
> by the Debian Ports team.
> 
> For an overview of the currently supported targets, see:
> 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=base-files&suite=sid
> 
> All architectures build the vast majority of packages without problems
> and alpha is actually one of the healhiest ports with over 90% of
> all packages being built:
> 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-ports-big.png
> 
> Please do not drop support for alpha in util-linux.

This is misunderstanding. It's mostly about Alpha specific RTC stuff
like RTC_EPOCH_* ioctls rather than about Alpha as architecture.

I have reviewed the patch and it seems Sami is wrong. The current
kernel still supports these ioctls. So, NACK from my point of view.

    Karel

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