Re: Dropping hppa, alpha and other discontinued ports in multistrap/pdebuild-cross

Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
Message-ID <20120609193057.GA5340@burratino> 
Neil Williams wrote:

> Whilst we have toolchains for ports discontinued in Debian, the fact
> that the ports have been discontinued in Debian means that the unstable
> packages will be out of date or simply non-existent.
>
> I'm going to drop alpha.conf, hppa.conf from multistrap in the first
> release after Wheezy.

Makes sense.  PA-RISC Linux (hppa) upstream still seems to marching
healthily along, but certainly not in ftp.debian.org, and the work in
debian-ports is going pretty slowly as well (no autobuilders yet[1]).

[1] http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/Debian_Ports
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