On Wed, 04 May 2016, Andreas Hilboll wrote: > > that is current state of endeavors that it does. Someone would need to > > address those big endian issues to resolve outstanding issues, and then > > it would happily migrate back into testing. Let me know if you would > > like to help.
> As I only have access to amd64 machines, I cannot help, unfortunately. not a problem -- I could provide you with access to a sparc box. email me privately your desired login/public ssh key if you would like to dig in. > I'm sorry for maybe not understanding Debian (which is very well > possible). I'm only interested in amd64, which means that from my point > of view there should be no reason why the amd64 pandas should be held up > by bugs on other architectures. overall idea is that packages with grave bugs are not kept in testing. bugs are not strictly differentiated by architectures, moreover it has been quite a few times that bug detected on big endian box was a generic bug just not triggered by test cases on conventional x86 platforms. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
