The old 32-bit powerpc architecture was removed from Ubuntu in Ubuntu 17.04 [1]. This means that all releases that still supported it are now in ESM, and ESM doesn't include powerpc support. We're therefore considering decommissioning Launchpad's powerpc builders. Note that the 64-bit ppc64el architecture would be *unaffected* by this change.
There are some positive reasons for us to do this as well as simple cleanup. For a complicated chain of reasons, retaining powerpc support requires us to retain support for running launchpad-buildd on Python 2, which we could otherwise remove. There are also currently some problems with getting 32-bit powerpc VMs working on our latest POWER compute nodes; those may be fixable, but perhaps if we decommission the architecture then we wouldn't have to bother figuring out what the problem is. However, if we do this it will make it permanently impossible to run any powerpc builds (.deb packages, snaps, etc.) on Launchpad, and it's unlikely to be possible to undo this change. It therefore seems prudent to ask around: does anyone know of any reason why we might need to add powerpc support to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, or otherwise retain any powerpc build capability in Launchpad? [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2016-December/001199.html Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : launchpad-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp