On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:19:07 +0100 Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 19:48 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I think that this part of the issue will be relevant for the m68k > > architecture, as long as gmsh is still distributed for that unofficial > > architecture. > > Something that is *not* legally distributable does *not* magically > > become distributable, just because the architecture is not officially > > supported by the Debian Project... > > m68k is not just "unofficial" or "not officially supported". It's not > been part of Debian, nor hosted on debian.org systems, since sarge was > archived. Debian is not distributing any packages on m68k and what > others might be doing on that architecture is not relevant to RC bugs in > Debian.
Hello Adam, thanks for following up on this. However, your reply somewhat puzzles me. I thought that ftp.debian-ports.org was an official Debian Project service for unsupported architectures: http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-m68k/main/g/gmsh/ includes http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-m68k/main/g/gmsh/gmsh_2.3.0.dfsg-1_m68k.deb That's why I claimed that the Debian Project is still distributing gmsh/2.3.0.dfsg-1 built for the m68k architecture... I thought that the situation for m68k was somewhat similar to that of the non-free and contrib archives: not part of the Debian distribution, but nonetheless distributed by the Debian Project through its official infrastructure... Could you please clarify? Thanks for your time. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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