On 11/01/2016 10:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:50PM +0900, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 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].
It won't be a release arch, but that doesn't imply removal in general from debian.
Both ia64 and sparc were dropped for release after Wheezy and soon after removed from
the FTP servers and buildd infrastructure altogether. For some reason, this hasn't
happened to kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 though, no idea what's the difference
between ia64/sparc and the kfreebsd ports.
As with the other architectures in Debian Ports, I suggest providing shared wanna-build
access among all Debian Ports maintainers (CC'ing everyone involved).
I really want to keep Debian powerpc maintained for the foreseeable future because I
don't want to disappoint our users who are still using PowerPC hardware.
Until someone says they want to remove it from the main debian archives,
I see no reason to ask to move it to ports. The time to ask for that
is if it is announced it is going to be removed from the main debian
archives, and that certainly has not happened at this time.
I just want to avoid a situation in which powerpc is gone from the main archives
and non-existing in Ports either. If we do the transition now, we can move powerpc
over in a healthy condition and make sure, the port remains usable for its users
in the foreseeable future.
Adrian