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Bug#707833: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#707833: package linux-image-3.8-1-sparc64-smp not found)



On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 23:51 -0400, Mitch Halmu wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > Please don't open bugs on 'missing' packages that are just waiting for
> > the auto-builder.  They are just a waste of maintainers' time.
> 
> When a kernel package for a specific platform disappears entirely from
> repositories for 10 days (May 6 to May 16), it's not a trivial event.
> 
> There was no 3.8 Linux kernel whatsoever to be had for sparc at all - no
> such package existed as far as the system was concerned. If this is a
> normal occurrence and business-as-usual at Debian, then please forgive me
> for wasting your time...

It was previously in experimental, and you cannot expect any continuity
of service in experimental.  There is always snapshot.debian.org,
anyway.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Gates has joked that everything goes on and off unexepectedly in the house,
which is run by a high-end PC network built on Windows NT. - Seattle Times

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