I have they in the past kept and architecture that was dropped as a release arch?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo < casca...@minaslivre.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:58:31PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > On 31/10/2016 18:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > I am not a DD, or a DM, but I have certainly helped fix problems for > > > powerpc, including in language runtimes for languages I don't use. > > > Unfortunately it seems the upstream for most things don't care much for > > > anything other than x86 and arm these days which makes it harder for > > > other architectures to stay working. > > > > since I am "upstream" for certain software I assure that I do care. > Actually > > I am one of the persons who tested GNUstep stuff on PPC. I know of other > > people happily using GNUstep on PPC. To do that, I need a usable > operating > > system of course... up to know it was debian. What could it be int he > > future? > > Perhaps not all upstream counts and we don't even need al possible > packages > > on PPC. But it is still possible today to have a ncie usable desktop > setup. > > > > This Debian decision will make a dim future for PowerPC developers, not > just > > users: a chicken-egg problem. > > > > Riccardo > > > > Well, as I understand, the release team decided there is not going to be > a Debian Stretch release for PowerPC. We can still ask the ftp-masters > and DSA to keep powerpc for testing and sid, and we will have to do our > own release. It's harder without all the infrastructure and work the > release team puts into a release. But it's still something we could do. > In the worst case, we can try to publish some install media and use the > debian-ports infrastructure that is going to use a rolling release, > based on sid. > > The only powerpc I had until now was a Nintendo Wii, and though there > are patches around that would make D-I usable, I was still playing with > some other hacks before I could try to push for them in Debian proper, > and it was not on my top priority. Too bad I couldn't foresee that if I > got much more involved long before, I could say to the release team I > was already doing porter work. But since I was not, it looked like any > volunteering from my part would have made no difference at all. > > However, I just ordered and old iBook G4, and I hope I can at least test > D-I images I could maybe help prepare. Would that help you keep testing > your code on PPC? :-) > > By the way, thanks a lot for helping all these years with the ppc port. > I have watched from a distance, which was a mistake. Hope I can help > with keeping up the port alive somehow. > > Best regards. > Cascardo. >
