Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

On 21-Sep-13, at 7:23 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:

>> I'll continue testing/software development activity on ia64 for the
>> Jessie cycle, and more generally, until Debian drops ia64. I'm  
>> already
>> waiting for Wayland on ia64 and other big updates.
>>
>> So please, keep ia64 in the bandwagon ;-)
>
> But I don't think ia64 is well-supported even in wheezy.  The kernel
> doesn't boot on some common machines and no-one seems to be able to  
> fix
> it.


I don't believe this for a minute.  This is about Debian and it's  
ability to attract capable
porters.

I seem to recall that a recent Wayland build is in the unstable parisc  
archive...

Dave
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