Something that we don't want to happen to PowerPC on Debian

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA384

Dear people,

I know that this is probably not as serious for PowerPC as it was for some other
platforms, but it was, in my opinion, very sad to know that Debian has dropped
support for 2 architectures: alpha and hppa.

For some personal reasons, I felt particularly sad about alpha (I planned to buy
one used machine for my own use), but, now, I sincerely hope that people more
knowledgeable about the architecture reintroduce them as official ports of
Debian again.

As I would really hate to see these things happen to PowerPC, would other people
join me in collecting data for a future requalification of PowerPC as a release
architecture in Debian? Previous qualification/certification data are available in:

    http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcEtchReleaseRecertification

    http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcLennyReleaseRecertification

I know that this may sound a bit premature at this stage, but it is better if
we, as a whole, report the errors as early as possible (and, for those that can,
provide a few patches), so that ppc is as healthy as feasible and not in any
danger of being dropped out.

For those that didn't know about alpha and hppa being dropped from Debian,
please read this:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/04/msg00000.html


Regards,

- -- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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=eXfv
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----