You have a porter for PowerPC. See email from Adrian. ;-) -- Christian
Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Sep 2016, at 10:03, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: >>> On 20.09.2016 23:46, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>>> On 09/20/2016 11:16 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> - powerpc: No porter (RM blocker) >>> >>> I'd be happy to pick up powerpc to keep it for Stretch. I'm already >>> maintaining powerpcspe which is very similar to powerpc. >> >> No, you are not maintaining powerpcspe as a release architecture, and that's >> something different than building packages for some of the ports >> architectures. >> If you can get powerpcspe accepted as a release architecture, then maybe you >> gain some credibility to maintain another release architecture ;) > > [Let's assume that we can't find a powerpc porter in time for Stretch.] > > 1. Will `powperpc` automatically be downgraded to simple port ? Or is > this also not automated and the port may simply be removed (eg. sparc) > ? > 2. Apart from loosing the automatic debian-installer stuff, what else > are we going to loose in that scenario ? > > Thanks much for pointers ! > > -M >
