On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 22:41 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, there is still a port alive of > Debian for ia64 architecture[1,2], but support is not official > in the sense of a "Release architecture"[3,4] for contemporary > Debian version 11 bullseye. Due to the Itanium hardware ecosystem no longer producing newer CPUs, ia64 likely could never become an official port again, but some of the unofficial Debian ports may at some point get unofficial releases as part of the proposed tier system for Debian architectures. That requires infrastructure changes and probably won't happen soon though. https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/47-investigating-a-tier-system-for-release-architectures/ https://gobby.debian.org/export/debconf22/bof/tier-architecture-system I expect that the folks working on the unofficial Debian ia64 port would welcome donations of extra hardware for build/porting servers, please contact the debian-ia64 mailing list if you can do that. https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/ In case you would like to contribute to the unofficial Debian ia64 port, probably a lot of the steps in the new port document need to be re-done or polished for ia64. https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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