Re: on Debian/Alpha

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

What Ron says is true.  The context of the discussion was in trying to get
some updates to potato (aka "stable") built on Alpha.  Since I only own
one Alpha and it's currently running unstable, I couldn't build the
packages locally.  Also, the two Alphas that are either on-loan or donated
to Debian have been down for months with no replies on what went wrong or
when I can help someone get them up again.  I wanted to use this
coincidence to force the issue and got that rather shocking (and
sudden) reply.  It's since been diffused in private mail, fyi, and steps
are being taken to get at least one of those two machines relocated to a
place where it can be taken care of properly.  In all fairness, the normal
Debian project machine admins don't know anything about alpha, so I don't
blame them, but I would've welcomed a long phone call to help solve the
situation.

In short, woody's path continues strongly and we're definitely not
dropping Alpha (if that were the case, I would definitely start a
flame-fest on the Debian private lists since I pour a TON of time into
making sure Alpha is just as well supported as x86 with Debian).  Current
Debian unstable (aka "sid") is also going very well, in case anyone's
interested.

C

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ron Farrer wrote:

> Maurice Hilarius (maurice@harddata.com) wrote:
> 
> > With regards to your message at 07:03 AM 10/23/01, Daniel Green. Where you 
> > stated:
> > >Alright, I'm game.  Where are the debain cd images.  I have searched around
> > >their ftp site, and can't find any alpha cd images.
> > >I can't/don't want to do a net install.  What are the options for getting
> > >debian on CD.
> > >
> > >Dan
> > Before we all go "leaping" to Deb, I think you might want to read an 
> > excerpt from the Deb Alpha list from 2 days ago:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> That was a reply regarding both of the Alpha project machines being
> down. It was by no means an official statement. The Alpha port is NOT
> going to be dropped. It was more of a scare tactic to get the machine
> admins to do something about them. If you look here
> <http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png> you'll see the Alpha port is
> keeping up just fine with x86. 
> 
> Ron
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