On 2016-11-02 00:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > 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.
Maybe someone interesting in keeping sparc by working on this architecture should have answered this email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00284.html Note that hurd-i386 was also supposed to be removed. Hurd porters replied to this email. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
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