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 -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
