Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On 2016-11-02 00:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.

Maybe someone interesting in keeping sparc by working on this
architecture should have answered this email:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00284.html

Note that hurd-i386 was also supposed to be removed. Hurd porters
replied to this email.

Aurelien

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