Debian may drop the SPARC architecture
Reported by LWN :
As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were
lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain and continued
stability issues with our machines.
The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get
removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this
should take place on #745938 .
But Oracle isn't an OS developer, SPARC has been left to rot in the gallows, and the users are going elsewhere. Too bad, SPARC, say hi to all those other interesting-but-dead architectures out there. [Posted from my Pentium IV, which has burned a hole through my desk and is now melting its way through the concrete.]