architecture requalification status for squeeze

Debian Release Management

alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
available some yes yes some yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
portbox yes yes yes yes - (w) yes yes yes - - yes yes yes
porters 1 - (w) 3 - - (w) 3 4 4 3 3 3 2 2
users ? 23000+ ? ? 92000+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
installer d-i d-i d-i ? d-i d-i d-i WIP d-i WIP d-i d-i d-i d-i d-i
archive-coverage 96 99 95 96 99 96 85 85 95 95 97 96 96
archive-uptodate 98 99 98 98 99 97 99 99 96 97 98 98 98
upstream-support ? yes yes ? yes partial(?) partial (w) partial (w) yes yes ? yes partial (more)
buildds 2 3 7 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
buildd-redundancy no yes yes some yes yes yes yes no no yes yes yes
buildd-fast-sec yes yes no ? yes yes yes yes ? ? yes yes yes
buildd-247 yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
buildd-dsa yes not all (fix ongoing) not all yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes partial yes
concerns-rm yes no ? ? no ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
concerns-srm yes no no ? no no ? ? ? ? no ? ?
concerns-dsa ? no ? ? no ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
concerns-sec ? no ? ? no ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
candidate no yes at risk at risk yes yes at risk at risk at risk at risk at risk at risk at risk

Waivers

amd64

Porters

Our toolchain maintainers are happy to support amd64 as-is.

i386

Porterbox

Considering the fact that most DDs still upload packages built on i386 and that pergolesi (the amd64 porterbox) offers 32bit chroots we waive the porterbox requirement for i386.

Porters

Our toolchain maintainers are happy to support i386 as-is.

kfreebsd

Upstream Support

Kernel has obviously a large community which supports it. gcc has upstream support, the kfreebsd-specific part is only a few hundred lines long. glibc is done by us (mostly Petr Salinger).

sparc

Upstream Support

According to the gcc maintainer 32bit code generation as we use it is no longer supported upstream and we should aim for a switch to 64bit userland anytime soon.