On 11/02/2016 02:17 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> 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. Well, I don't remember the exact chronology, but I *did* ask a lot of people during DebConf15 to keep it, including you. My request was ignored back then as well. And as you may know I have also been very active in trying to keep powerpc in ever since the first announcement by the release team was made. I couldn't join the IRC meeting though because it was held at 4 AM in the morning local time while I was in Hong Kong (I did add my name to the doodle though in advance to get a date suited better for me). I don't know what else I'm supposed to do, however, my point remains that we should not remove ports that lots people are actively using. I understand that it is more fun for many maintainers to work on new fancy architectures like arm64 or mips64el. However, that shouldn't mean we should stop caring about things that people are actually using, shouldn't we? And I fear we will have the same discussion with armel soon as well which is currently our third-most popular architecture which is also supposed to be removed after Stretch. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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