I would like to know after Stretch will we be able to submit bugs to BTS or are we basically on our own.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Gatis Visnevskis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to have knowledge shared, how to still run Debian on powerpc > without main archives. > > I am going to run Debian on powerpc, and im sure that many other users will > do. There will be many security patches (kernel/openssl) and they must be > patched some way. > Maybe we are not strong enough to keep entire distro up to Debian standarts, > but at least base packages? > > Gasha > > >> On 2016.11.01. 17:40, 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. >> >>>> 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 >> >
