Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-13 Thread Bob Bib
On 09/08/15 08:55, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Bob Bib (bob...@ukr.net): What do you mean by "attic"? (Probably a newbie question, sorry). ... That's a special directory named "attic" in the Debian Installer git repository, where we store old stuff, just like people do in their attics..:-)

Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bob Bib (bob...@ukr.net): > On 08/08/15 20:01, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >... > > > >I just moved silo-installer out to the attic this morning. > > What do you mean by "attic"? (Probably a newbie question, sorry). No problem, I used to wonder what people were meaning by this, in the past

Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-08 Thread Bob Bib
On 08/08/15 20:01, Christian PERRIER wrote: ... I just moved silo-installer out to the attic this morning. What do you mean by "attic"? (Probably a newbie question, sorry). -- Best wishes, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Hi, > > Christian PERRIER (2015-07-27): > > Quoting Joerg Jaspert (jo...@debian.org): > > > Hi, > > > > > > following the last[1] announce, I just removed sparc from > > > > > > unstable > > > experimental > > > jessie-updates > > > > .../... > > >

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 04:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > I'm a bit unsure. If sparc ever comes back as sparc64, it might make > sense to reuse some bits. But I'm not sure whether both archs would be > close enough for that to happen, or if they would be different beasts > like arm{el,hf} a

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 04:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm a bit unsure. If sparc ever comes back as sparc64, it might make > sense to reuse some bits. They can always be recovered from the VCS history or the attic. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Christian PERRIER (2015-07-27): > Quoting Joerg Jaspert (jo...@debian.org): > > Hi, > > > > following the last[1] announce, I just removed sparc from > > > > unstable > > experimental > > jessie-updates > > .../... > > As a consequence, should we keep sparc-only packages -I know about > s

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-28 Thread Bob Bib
On 28/07/15 12:11, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Bob Bib wrote: Hmm, could it affect some sparc[64]-only packages in a bad way (e. g., source package getting removed and no more available for debian-ports)? [...] E. g., silo is "Architecture: sparc sparc64". Source packages which no longer build b

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
hive. > Still available in the pool but so are the .deb files: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/silo/ Files no longer in use only get removed after a delay (currently 1.5 days). That time hasn't yet passed since the sparc removal. I consider rmadison is a more useful tool to

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
Bob Bib wrote: > Hmm, could it affect some sparc[64]-only packages in a bad way (e. g., > source package getting removed and no more available for debian-ports)? In any case, all source packages and sparc binaries are available here: http://snapshot.debian.org/ > E. g., silo is "Architecture: s

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Bib
On 27/07/15 05:31, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Hi, following the last[1] announce, I just removed sparc from unstable experimental jessie-updates as well as our internal support "suites" new and byhand. The relevant parts of the dists/ tree have been cleaned out already, removing the actual files fr

Sparc removal

2015-07-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, following the last[1] announce, I just removed sparc from unstable experimental jessie-updates as well as our internal support "suites" new and byhand. The relevant parts of the dists/ tree have been cleaned out already, removing the actual files from the pool/ hierarchy will happen using t