Re: Bit from the Release Team: Status of hppa
[replying to debian-hppa]
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As previously announced[1], hppa is no longer a release architecture for
> Squeeze.
>
> What does this mean in practical terms? As of the next britney run, the
> architecture will be ignored for the purposes of testing migration -
> packages which are otherwise ready (and unblocked) may migrate to
> testing even if they have not built on hppa, or if they would create
> installability problems in testing on hppa.
>
> Additionally, any bug which is specific to the hppa architecture is no
> longer considered release-critical.
>
> The status of hppa in unstable is unchanged; it will continue to be
> supported by the buildd network as now. There will also continue to be
> hppa packages in testing for now to allow the porters to explore
> possible options for a separate release of Squeeze for hppa; as
> mentioned above, these may not be in-sync with the other architectures
> in some cases.
Are there people interested in working on a squeeze-hppa release? If
so, it would probably be good to formulate a plan sooner than
later. fwiw, I'd be wililng to continue maintaining buildds for it.
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