[replying to debian-hppa] On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > As previously announced[1], hppa is no longer a release architecture for > Squeeze. > > What does this mean in practical terms? As of the next britney run, the > architecture will be ignored for the purposes of testing migration - > packages which are otherwise ready (and unblocked) may migrate to > testing even if they have not built on hppa, or if they would create > installability problems in testing on hppa. > > Additionally, any bug which is specific to the hppa architecture is no > longer considered release-critical. > > The status of hppa in unstable is unchanged; it will continue to be > supported by the buildd network as now. There will also continue to be > hppa packages in testing for now to allow the porters to explore > possible options for a separate release of Squeeze for hppa; as > mentioned above, these may not be in-sync with the other architectures > in some cases.
Are there people interested in working on a squeeze-hppa release? If so, it would probably be good to formulate a plan sooner than later. fwiw, I'd be wililng to continue maintaining buildds for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
