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Comment by nimish | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure that skipping SPARC is a bad thing. Who even has SPARC machines sitting around to validate builds? Even Fujitsu moved to ARM for their later cores.

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people who are specially interested in packaging and therefore do it for free care about SPARC.

but who's using it? Where are the hordes of SPARC users craving cutting-edge software?

  > Who even has SPARC machines sitting around to validate builds?

I'll just leave this here: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC

i got a debian maintainer for old IBM mainframes asking me to fix bugs and run tests for that architecture. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ these people exist, but i'm not going to support them. feel free to fork me!

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