On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:22:43PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 09/21/2010 11:34 PM, dann frazier wrote: >> [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. >> >> >> > Dann, is there a way one can contribute if one hasn't access to a > HPPA machine? If yes, I'd like to help.
I don't have any specific ideas as to how but, should this project take off, you could continue to monitor this list for possibilities. I'd imagine there'd be a need for documentation at the very least. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
