Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Eric, On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Franc-Parler ancien wrote: > Le 03/11/16 02:32, Rick Thomas a écrit : > >> On Nov 2, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Herminio Hernandez >> Jr. wrote: >> >>> I would like to know after Stretch will we be able to

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-03 Thread luigi burdo
hi Eric, the problem is: debian will not run officially and supported on new ppc too... luigi __ Hello, I'm a prospective user of Debian owning a mac ppc G3 . I couldn't install Jessie (graphic card issue for the moment) but still willing to succeed to go further

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-03 Thread Franc-Parler ancien
Le 03/11/16 02:32, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Nov 2, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: I would like to know after Stretch will we be able to submit bugs to BTS or are we basically on our own. On Nov 2, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Gatis

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 2, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: > I would like to know after Stretch will we be able to submit bugs to BTS or > are we basically on our own. > >> On Nov 2, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Gatis Visnevskis wrote: >> >> I

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
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 wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to have knowledge shared, how to still run Debian on powerpc >

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread Gatis Visnevskis
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

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-02 16:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/02/2016 03:13 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Well, I don't remember the exact chronology, but I *did* ask a lot of > >> people during DebConf15 to keep it, including you. My request was > >> ignored back then as well. > > > > That's

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/02/2016 03:13 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Well, I don't remember the exact chronology, but I *did* ask a lot of >> people during DebConf15 to keep it, including you. My request was >> ignored back then as well. > > That's plainly wrong. During Debconf 15, sparc was /already* removed > from

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-02 09:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/02/2016 02:17 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Well, frankly, I'm not sure I'm very confident that this promise will > >> be held up. Both ia64 and sparc were release architectures in Wheezy, > >> dropped in Jessie and consequently

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Breno! On 11/02/2016 04:25 AM, Breno Leitao wrote: > On 11/01/2016 02:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> My suggestion would be to set up some instances on IBM's POWER cloud (hence >> CC'ing Breno >> who has been so kind to provide cloud instances to support the ppc64 port >> with

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/02/2016 02:17 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Well, frankly, I'm not sure I'm very confident that this promise will >> be held up. Both ia64 and sparc were release architectures in Wheezy, >> dropped in Jessie and consequently removed both from the FTP servers >> and the buildd infrastructure

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
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

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-02 00:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Aurelien! > > On 11/01/2016 09:00 PM, Aurelien Jarno 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 >

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 >>

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Aurelien! On 11/01/2016 09:00 PM, Aurelien Jarno 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]. > > As

Re: [Debian-ports-devel] Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Lennart Sorensen dixit: >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

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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

Re: Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-11-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-01 13:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! Hi, > 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]. As

Moving powerpc to Debian Ports

2016-10-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! 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]. My suggestion would be to set up some instances on IBM's POWER cloud