Re: Two new architectures bootstrapping in unstable - MBF coming soon

["Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>]

2014-08-28 01:55 Wookey:
> +++ Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2014-08-27 20:25 +0100]:
> > Congrats!  The sooner that you graduate out of debian-ports, the
> > better for other architectures that want to get into ;-) -- although
> > arm64 is still there, for some reasons.
>
> We are using the binaries in debian-ports to help bootstrap debian
> proper (cycle breaking), so will keep debian-ports running until
> everything there is also built in debian-proper, then we can turn it
> off, and as you observe, 'free up' a slot. That should be within the
> month judging by current rates of progress.

Ah, OK, thanks for the explanation.  I thought that it was just a
pending task that was not carried out for some reason, or not
reflected yet in the website.

The part of freeing up a slot was meant as a joke though, no hurry :-)

I am very happy to see these new arches progress so quickly!


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>