On 07/08/2016 07:20 PM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> You are right, strictly spoken.
> But there are several "old and removed" ports in the "unofficial ports" 
> section,
> like alpha or arm or hppa.
> To solve this, we would need to create a third section like "Old/Removed 
> ports",
> or the like.

Both alpha and hppa still exist, they have just become ports. Neither ia64 nor
sparc exist anywhere. That's a difference.

To see what targets in Debian are currently supported, both as release 
architectures
and as ports, look at a random buildd page [1]. As you can see, neither "sparc"
nor "ia64" are nowhere to be found while "alpha", "hppa" and "sparc64" are
preset - every architecture that is grayed out is currently unofficial, thus
a ports architecture.

Adrian
(a very active porter)

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=base-files&suite=sid

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