On 2016-11-02 00:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Aurelien! > > On 11/01/2016 09:00 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Since Debian powerpc was recently announced to be removed as a release architecture, > >> I would like to formally request to move the port to Debian Ports as there still seems > >> to be quite some demand among users [1]. > > > > As stated in the announcement from debian-release, this doesn't mean > > that powerpc is going to be removed from the debian archive. I wonder if > > it is a good idea to rush on that, especially given that you have been > > the one complaining regularly that mini-dak is not so good as dak. > > Well, frankly, I'm not sure I'm very confident that this promise will > be held up. Both ia64 and sparc were release architectures in Wheezy, > dropped in Jessie and consequently removed both from the FTP servers > and the buildd infrastructure despite being popular according to > popcon. Nobody asked for ia64 and sparc to be kept, so they have just been removed. FTR kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 are still there. There is even a jessie-kfreebsd suite. Maybe talking with ftpmasters is the way to go instead of already considering the outcome, at least it worked for kfreebsd. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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