Re: Linux 6.7

On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 18:09 +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 28.02.24 16:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 09:44 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > Greetings and thanks for the update!  So what is the Debian status wi=
th
> > > ia64, is it being retired or not?  And if not, what happened to yttri=
um?
> >=20
> > yttrium has been decommissioned, the rest of the ia64 Debian port will
> > follow suit at the convenience of the Debian Ports FTP team, most likel=
y
> > when either glibc 2.39 or kernel 6.7 are uploaded to unstable.
>=20
> There's no way to keep a sort of "stable" release in Ports, right?
>=20
> How much work will it be to later reinstate it (i.e. the ia64 port)?

Packages will be archived on snapshot.debian.org before removal, so you wil=
l
be able to rebootstrap the port if necessary from there.

Plus, you can actually use the rebootstrap project in case you need to star=
t
from scratch.

Adrian

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