SPARC removed from Jessie

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Subject: SPARC removed from Jessie

From: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:34:56 +0200

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Hello. _______________________________ < Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! > ------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (xx)\_______) (__)\ )\/\ U ||----w | || || [1] As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain and continued stability issues with our machines. The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this should take place on #745938[2]. SPARC support was officially introduced in a released version of Debian with Slink (2.1) back in March 1999 and was featured in eight releases. It also featured amusement like the following that we shall not miss. \|/ ____ \|/ "@'/ ,. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ [3] Kind regards and thanks for your understanding Philipp Kern for the Release team [1] Source: arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938 [3] Source: arch/sparc/kernel/traps_32.c - Thanks, bwh!