Please set importance - sparc installer

[Micah Gersten]

On 11/22/2010 03:29 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 11/22/2010 03:11 AM, Chris Coulson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 08:52 +0100, njin wrote:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/silo/+bug/476234 --Hight
>>> because has a severe impact on a small portion of Ubuntu users
>>> Thanks
>>> Fabio
>> Sparc is dead - the bug should just be closed
> Well, in theory, it's still supported through Lucid.  In reality, even
> as far back as Hardy the installer has not worked.  The last known
> installer that worked from what I have been told is Gutsy.  So, the
> workaround would be to use the Gutsy installer and then upgrade to Hardy
> and then Lucid.  It would be a silo dev's call whether or not to won't
> fix this.  It should definitely be targeted though (IMHO) and not open
> in Maverick or Natty.
>
> Micah
>
Actually, just found that Jaunty was the last known SPARC install to
actually work, so upgrading to Hardy is probably as far as someone
should go.
Micah