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On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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> On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they |
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>> remove themselves from it and say so? |
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>> Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file |
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>> stable requests for that arch on future versions of the package? |
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> When armin did stabilisation for minor archs in the past, he took the |
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> opportunity to evaluate whether it was still useful to have the package |
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> stable. In many cases for small random packages, stable keywords were |
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> dropped to reduce future workload. I always thought it was a pretty good |
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> strategy. |
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Indeed! The thing was that a lot of the packages were keyworded and |
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marked stable back in the day where the arch was more popular. |
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But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less |
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popular: |
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alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years |
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hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations(ie, graphics/sound) |
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in 5+ years |
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ia64: no new workstations in 10 years, new servers are expensive |
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ppc*: new workstations are expensive |
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sparc: no new workstations in 7+ years, new servers expensive |
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One of the reasons they are being killed, IMHO, its that the power |
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consumption isn't worth, and an amd64 machine is pretty much more |
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powerful, has more cores, and cheaper and has a lot less power consumption. |
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My Sun Blade 1000 (workstation) uses 225W idling, my amd64 workstation |
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uses 100W at full power or so. And the amd64 has way more cores and more |
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performance. And let's not talk about the heat... |
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Besides there's software like firefox and gnome3 that doesn't work in |
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sparc due to unaligned accesses. |
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Debian announced some months ago that they're dropping sparc support as |
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well. Right now debian doesn't support, officially, alpha, hppa and sparc. |
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Obviously ppc* has a lot of work because its the most keyworded arch |
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behind amd64 and x86. |
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