Re: dropping hppa from testing

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 11:24 -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> The Debian/HPPA porters recently had a discussion[1] about the future
> of the port. We reached the consensus that, due to limited resources
> and end-of-life hardware, we should no longer spend our energy on
> maintaining an official debian port, or creating our own "stable"
> releases. Instead, we will focus our efforts on maintaining an
> installable/useable "unstable" distribution, likely making use of the
> debian-ports infrastructure.
> 
> To that end, I'd like to request that hppa be removed from testing.

Thanks for the confirmation of the final decision, and for all your work
on the port over the years.  I've made the required changes for britney
(and britney2) and let ftp-master know.

> This by no means reduces our commitment to the support life of the
> current stable release (lenny), which will still be maintained for at
> least 1 more year.

Thanks; that's very much appreciated.

Regards,

Adam