From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aioanei Rares Subject: Re: HPPA and Squeeze Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:47:04 +0300 Message-ID: <4A2E9208.6090602@gmail.com> References: <20090602140734.GC26721@mx0.halon.org.uk> <20090606183600.GA425@lackof.org> <20090608212606.GC19894@halon.org.uk> <7d01f9f00906081644s5d3e873ct887bf4fd777d55ec@mail.gmail.com> <20090609092954.GD19894@halon.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Thibaut VARENE , Grant Grundler , HPPA porters , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org To: Neil McGovern Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090609092954.GD19894@halon.org.uk> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:44:27AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > >>> Ish. We still have the issue that you can't actually buy HPPAs any more, >>> >> When did "being a marketed platform" become a criteria for inclusion? >> Is Debian the new Ubuntu? :-P >> >> > > Well, back in 2005... > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/03/msg00012.html > > However, I didn't mean it as a 'you must be able to get these from HP'. > You can't find them on ebay (for the three days I looked), and this > would indicate that it's unlikely that there's going to be sufficient > new porters to make this work. > > www.gall.de and some more others >> Failing this, could we please have a detailed rationale for the >> decision? >> > > It'll be in the d-d-a post, or linked from the post :) > > Hope this helps, > Neil >