Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 2 Oct 2013, at 20:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I don't think Debian development should be driven by retro-computing. No, but driven by demand makes sense to me, and I'm glad Stephen pulled some figures on that. > > I'm not saying we should drop support for perfectly usable machines, >

Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:56:51PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:22:06PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > > We should add official support for ppc64 and maybe sparc64 at least for use > > as a multiarch extension to ppc/sparc, even if we do not have time to make > > a f

Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi. On 02/10/13 12:56, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Actually I wonder how many 32 bit powerpc > users there are compared to 64 bit. IN the mac world, I'd wager > more G4s than G5s (the mac pro or xserves), not sure about other > powerpc worlds. Maybe these figures from popcon are indicative; it see

Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:22:06PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > We should add official support for ppc64 and maybe sparc64 at least for use > as a multiarch extension to ppc/sparc, even if we do not have time to make a > full > port. Otherwise the introduction of multiarch will likely result in