On 11/01/2016 10:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:50PM +0900, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Since Debian powerpc was recently announced to be removed as a release >> architecture, >> I would like to formally request to move the port to Debian Ports as there >> still seems >> to be quite some demand among users [1]. > > It won't be a release arch, but that doesn't imply removal in general from > debian.
Both ia64 and sparc were dropped for release after Wheezy and soon after removed from the FTP servers and buildd infrastructure altogether. For some reason, this hasn't happened to kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 though, no idea what's the difference between ia64/sparc and the kfreebsd ports. >> As with the other architectures in Debian Ports, I suggest providing shared >> wanna-build >> access among all Debian Ports maintainers (CC'ing everyone involved). >> >> I really want to keep Debian powerpc maintained for the foreseeable future >> because I >> don't want to disappoint our users who are still using PowerPC hardware. > > Until someone says they want to remove it from the main debian archives, > I see no reason to ask to move it to ports. The time to ask for that > is if it is announced it is going to be removed from the main debian > archives, and that certainly has not happened at this time. I just want to avoid a situation in which powerpc is gone from the main archives and non-existing in Ports either. If we do the transition now, we can move powerpc over in a healthy condition and make sure, the port remains usable for its users in the foreseeable future. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
