Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports
I would like to know after Stretch will we be able to submit bugs to BTS or are we basically on our own.
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> On Nov 2, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Gatis Visnevskis <gasha@pie-dabas.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I would like to have knowledge shared, how to still run Debian on powerpc without main archives.
>
> I am going to run Debian on powerpc, and im sure that many other users will do. There will be many security patches (kernel/openssl) and they must be patched some way.
> Maybe we are not strong enough to keep entire distro up to Debian standarts, but at least base packages?
>
> Gasha
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>
>> On 2016.11.01. 17:40, 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.
>>
>>>> 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
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