On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:23:38PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > 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?
I don't have a complete list, but here's the things that pop to mind. First off, we need to figure out where to host it. We could potentially have a squeeze-hppa release on the official debian mirrors, or use debian-ports.org. We'll need to talk to ftpmaster & debian-ports maintainers to see which is most appropriate. In addition, we'll need to work with the d-i team to make sure we have a usable installer - as well as the debian-cd team to make sure we can generate ISO images, though we may end up having to generate images ourselves. We'll also need to keep doing the things we do today - fixing hppa-specific issues, keeping buildds running, etc. Documentation, test installs and lenny upgrade testing would be needed too. Post-release, we'll need to have a plan for continued updates for squeeze security updates & point releases. If we have interest here, it would probably behoove us to pull together an IRC meeting with members from various subteams to assess the full scope. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
