On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 03:41:17PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:00:26PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > As mentioned in the recent ftp-team meeting minutes, we're planning to > >> > remove alpha and hppa from unstable. They were removed from testing > >> > before the squeeze release and there's no sign that they will be release > >> > architectures for wheezy. As such, we're planning to remove them from > >> > unstable and experimental in the next few days. buildd support for > >> > unstable and experimental will also be ended at that time, but will > >> > obviously continue for lenny updates / security builds. > >> > > >> > Before we remove the architectures, archives will be taken for anyone > >> > who wants to take a copy of the dump to use elsewhere. These dumps will > >> > be made available on request. > >> > >> Just curious: > >> 1) what's the cost of letting the unstable buildds run on a "don't > >> care" basis? (question which I asked before and which remained > >> unanswered afaik) > >> 2) what's up with the FTPmasters' minutes which stated the hppa > >> archive would be moved to debian-ports? > > > > As clearly explained in the mail to debian-devel-announce, it's the > > porters job to do the transition. Currently debian-ports can't accept a > > new port due to disk space issue. We already tried to upgrade them, but > > it failed. The porters wantijng a new port on debian-ports.org should > > find a person in Paris who can go to the place and fix the issue (which > > probably means also buying a new hard drive). > > So, it seems this reads "it's your [porters] job to do the transition, > but anyway, we can't accept your contribution since our infrastructure > is currently not ready and it will also be /your/ [porters] job to fix Wrong! Note that contrary to what a lot of people think, debian-ports is not part of the Debian infrastructure. It is run by (not enough) volunteers, partly on Debian money, partly on sponsoring and partly on volunteer funds. I am currently in contact with the DPL to try to improve the situation. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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