On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:34 PM, dann frazier <[email protected]> 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.
What work is involved? Is there a todo list of things we can have people sign up for? Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
