Gentoo dropping support of SPARC

This decision follows the council decision on 2016-12-11, 'The council defers to the security team, but is supportive of dropping security support for sparc if it is unable to generally meet the security team timelines.'

The Gentoo security team has announced that the SPARC architecture will no longer be supported by the security team. "

From: Yury German <blueknight-AT-gentoo.org> To: gentoo-announce-AT-lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-announce] Dropping support of sparc as a security supported architecture. Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:25:45 -0400 Message-ID: <d91a678b-9931-def4-b309-4d1d32615571@gentoo.org>

Hello, After long discussion with the sparc team and other developers, the Security Team has decided to drop SPARC as a security supported architecture. This decision follows the council decision on 2016-12-11, "The council defers to the security team, but is supportive of dropping security support for sparc if it is unable to generally meet the security team timelines." The list of security supported architectures is maintained in the [Security Vulnerability Treatment Policy] The consequences of the removal of security supported architecture include (i) GLSA will be released before a version of a package is necessarily stable for the architecture (ii) architecture-specific issues will not be investigated. In addition to this announcement, glsa-check will be updated to present necessary information for sparc users. As most security issues are cross-architecture, glsa-check will continue to be operational for sparc based on generic GLSAs for other architectures. References: [Security Vulnerability Treatment Policy] https://www.gentoo.org/support/security/vulnerability-tre... ## -- ________________ Yury German (BlueKnight) Gentoo Security Team Lead Email: blueknight@gentoo.org OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net GPG Fingerprint: 8858 89D6 C0C4 75C4 D0DD FA00 EEAF ED89 024C 043